Among healthy adults, inhaling wood smoke for 2 hours negatively impacted the lung microbiome by raising the amount of ...

Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and despite medical advances that can now help us prevent and cure ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Alveolar macrophages are immune cells that live in the tiny air sacs of the lungs. Under normal conditions, these cells act as guardians, keeping the lungs healthy, supporting breathing, and ...

KAIST researchers have developed a way to reprogram immune cells already inside tumors into cancer-killing machines. A drug ...

Using human stem cells, scientists have created a miniature lung that mimics breathing and TB infection, opening new ...

When a drug is injected directly into a tumour, macrophages already present in the body absorb the drug and begin producing ...

Lung-on-chip model made of cells derived from a single person furthers understanding of tuberculosis and potential ...

Alveolar macrophages are immune cells that live in the tiny air sacs of the lungs. Under normal conditions, these cells act as guardians, keeping the lungs healthy, supporting breathing, and ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells ...