This important study describes a first-in-human trial of autologous p63+ stem cells in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lethal condition for which effective treatments are lacking. The ...

Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...

"This is the first time that MRI has been used to jointly assess lung and brain function to investigate their relationship in long COVID," said the study's lead author Keegan Staab, B.S., graduate ...

The gas exchange system is made from key parts, each of which has a different function ... tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas is exchanged during breathing. Within the human lungs the alveoli ...

Treating PAH patient-derived blood vessel cells with calcitriol reduced vitamin D receptor deficiency and suppressed their ...