Developing new medicines to treat pulmonary fibrosis, one of the most common and serious forms of lung disease, is not easy. The image above shows collagen from a healthy engineered lung tissue. One reason: it’s difficult to mimic how the disease damages and scars lung tissue over time, often forcing scientists to employ a hodgepodge of time-consuming...
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Widely used e-cigarette flavoring impairs lung function
A new study has found that a common e-cigarette flavoring that has chemical characteristics similar to toxic chemicals found in cigarette smoke disrupts an important mechanism of the lungs’ antibacterial defense system. The study was presented at the 2018 American Thoracic Society International Conference. “Our data suggest that when used in e-cigarettes cinnamaldehyde, like toxic...
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