Although the respiratory system is one of the main entry points for microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) from the air into ...

Two stem cell researchers have found an abundance of abnormal stem cells in the lungs of patients who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a leading cause of death worldwide ...

The most comprehensive lung cell atlas to date, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and collaborators, has revealed 11 new lung cell types and offers detailed insight into an immune process ...

Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Two types of macrophages—the white blood ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are immune cells tasked with mediating early host defense. The NK cells that live long-term in the lung, or in other organs, are called tissue-resident.

Rat or human lung samples are enzymatically digested, and CD31-expressing cells are positively selected using magnetic-activated cell sorting before plating in endothelial-specific growth conditions.

An online atlas of lung cells affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) may help researchers find ways to create new therapies to treat this rare disease, one affecting about 100,000 ...

Identifying drugs to reduce the excessive expulsion of cells in the lung lining could reduce the damage of chronic asthma.

The researchers used next-generation single-cell sequencing technologies developed in Zhang's lab to analyze individual nuclei of more than 80,000 human and mouse lung cells combined.

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine have discovered a new type of cell, the respiratory airway secretory cell in the lung, which could help repair damage caused by diseases such as Chronic ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows. Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in ...

New research suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can induce syncytia formation in the lungs, triggering a strong inflammatory response.