News tagged with lung airway

Findings on pollution damage to human airways could yield new therapies

Researchers from Duke University Medical Center have identified how nanoparticles from diesel exhaust damage lung airway cells, a finding that could lead to new therapies for people susceptible to airway disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify another potential biomarker

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that a recently discovered class of molecule called microRNA (miRNAs), regulate the gene expression changes in airway cells that occur with smoking ...

Biology /

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Two-pronged model could help foil tough cystic fibrosis infections

Dartmouth Medical School researchers have devised a novel approach for thwarting the relentless bacterial infections that thrive in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis (CF), unlocking new possibilities against a tenacious ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0