When a virus enters the lungs, the immune system has to react fast. The lung maintains its own community of immune cells ...

The researchers' success in direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts into alveolar epithelial-like cells may lead to new treatments for serious lung diseases. Researchers in Japan have successfully ...

Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

An inhaled vaccine using a sugar-based carrier activated lung immune cells and prevented tumor growth in mice, offering a promising approach for long-term protection against lung cancer. (Nanowerk ...

Researchers have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body's nervous system. Researchers from the Francis Crick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Stanford-led mouse study reports a nasal vaccine that boosted broad lung defenses against infections and allergens. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers at the CU Anschutz Cancer Center have discovered how breast cancer cells that spread to the lungs may take ...

Scientists have discovered that losing a key protein in small cell lung cancer triggers inflammation that actually helps ...