Many Black men with ‘normal’ lung function may actually have emphysema
Black men with emphysema may be misdiagnosed because of race-specific adjustments to spirometry. Credit: ATS A significant percentage of Black
Read moreBlack men with emphysema may be misdiagnosed because of race-specific adjustments to spirometry. Credit: ATS A significant percentage of Black
Read moreCredit: CC0 Public Domain For the first time, researchers have successfully used bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—to treat an antibiotic-resistant mycobacterial
Read moreCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain CT-detected emphysema is linked to a higher risk of lung cancer, a risk that increases with
Read moreSegregation of heart and lung microtissues. Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Interactions between the developing heart and lungs
Read moreLung cancer cells. Credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, CC BY-NC 4.0 Artificial intelligence (AI) could help guide the post-treatment surveillance
Read moreThis image shows the ISM1 protein (in green) produced by alveolar macrophages (AMs) (red), which show up in this image
Read moreRenée Schnettler and Maxwell Anderson show how the soft robot bends with air pressure. Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Seniors
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Read moreCancer cell during cell division. Credit: National Institutes of Health Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered a drug
Read moreMultiplex immunofluorescence image from the AstroPath platform shows a 70% reduction in lung tumor size, prior to definitive surgery. In
Read moreCredit: CC0 Public Domain A variant of the CTLA-4 gene associated with autoimmune disease was found to be more frequent
Read moreLung CA seen on CXR. Credit: James Heilman, MD/Wikipedia Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with the KRAS
Read moreCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Radiation to the heart during treatment for locally advanced lung cancer is associated with an increased
Read moreSquares A-F show the evolution of the crystalline structures of lung surfactant monolayers as they “finger” or elongate with increasing
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Read moreCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The introduction of lung cancer screening in the US in December 2013 is associated with more
Read moreCredit: CC0 Public Domain Intense light activates proteins shown to protect against lung damage in mice, a discovery that could
Read moreAlbert Khoury (R) speaks about his new lungs with surgeon Ankit Bharat in Chicago in January 2022, in a handout
Read morePro-invasive and indolence signature genes associated with tumor invasion at early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. Credit: Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29230-7 Mount
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