A human cell culture model of the lung's most important immune cells, alveolar macrophages, helped make a key finding that is prompting researchers to rethink the role of another immune protein. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, a breathing lung model has been made using cells from only one person. Announced on January 1, the development ...

The miniature lung provides insights into specific lung function and pathology, allowing doctors to design precise therapies according to patients’ genetic makeup. A breathing lung on a microchip? A ...

Scientists are now able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model, researchers ...

Lung diseases like tuberculosis and cystic fibrosis can be difficult to treat. In part, that's because the two-dimensional models researchers use to study the diseases don't accurately reflect the ...

The breakthrough comes amid global efforts to develop alternatives to animal testing and advance personalized medicine, which considers individual differences in disease response and treatment outcome ...

Scientists from A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR IMCB) have identified why certain lung cancer cells ...