by Mayo Clinic Human chromosomes (grey) capped by telomeres (white). Credit: PD-NASA; PD-USGOV-NASA In 2017, Cindy Sutherland caught a nasty cold she couldn’t shake. After coughing nonstop for weeks, she went to urgent care and got a chest X-ray. When the doctor shared the results with her, he asked, “Have you ever heard of pulmonary fibrosis?”...
Peer-Reviewed Publication JOSEP CARRERAS LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE MANEL ESTELLER, VERONICA DAVALOS, ALEIX NOGUERA-CASTELLS AND EVA MUSULEN, JOSEP CARRERAS LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE. AUTHORS OF THE STUDY ABOUT THE EFFECT OF LETHAL COVID-19 IN THE EPIGENETICS OF THE LUNG TISSUES CREDIT: JOSEP CARRERAS LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE. The COVID-19 disease, due to infection with the SARS-CoV2 virus, became...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Millions of Americans with tobacco-related lung disease have symptoms that do not fit any existing tobacco-related disease criteria—including the most common of those, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco. In a study published Aug. 1, 2023,...
by Bill Bangert, University of Cincinnati Tasnim Olatoke, graduate student in the UC College of Medicine. Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Marketing + Brand A treatment for a rare cancer-like lung disease found in women of childbearing age may have been discovered by University of Cincinnati researchers. The rare lung disease is called lymphangioleiomyomatosis or LAM, and the cause of it...
by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology The first row contains lung X-ray images. The second row lists the diagnoses made by human radiologists. These are elaborated in the paragraphs provided in the third row. The bottom row contains comparable captions generated by the neural networks. The underlined fragments show that, while the text could clearly...
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Lung disease caused by a new drug for cancers—including metastatic or advanced breast cancer—can be effectively treated using approaches that focus on early detection and prompt management, according to a study published in ESMO Open on August 11, 2022. Using data from nine clinical trials, this study...
LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE LONDON, ON- A new diagnostic method could help identify one of the deadliest types of interstitial lung disease (ILD) sooner, allowing for faster treatment and improved patient outcomes. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is one of the most serious and common types of ILD, occurring most often in patients 60 and older...
by Centenary Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney have identified a new drug target for the treatment and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung disease that causes airway blockage and that makes it difficult to breathe. Secreted by mast cells, a part...
by Nancy Fliesler, Children’s Hospital Boston Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110662 Many serious pulmonary diseases, including genetic lung diseases, lack an effective treatment other than the most extreme: lung transplant. A team at Boston Children’s Hospital envisions a much better option: cell therapy, using lung stem cells created from patients’ own cells to repair...
Metabolite technology developed in the College of Medicine – Tucson has been licensed to startup MetFora. Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson have developed a new way to provide earlier diagnosis of lung disease. The method involves analyzing metabolites, small molecules that are produced through cellular metabolic reactions. When normal...
