The lung is a highly specialised organ that develops through a complex series of branching events and cellular differentiation processes. From the initial budding of the foregut, the formation of ...

Among 8- to 9-year-olds, those with vs. without maternal gestational diabetes mellitus exposure had two reduced measures of ...

Immune cells play an active and intimate role in directing the growth of human lung tissue during development, researchers find, revolutionizing our understanding of early lung development and the ...

The decision to end the programme comes 18 months after Genmab's former partner for the acasunlimab, BioNTech, pulled out of ...

Findings from a new study on lung development should empower the search for better treatments for lung diseases. Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have ...

These CT scans of airways (red) and lungs (black) show the spectrum of dysanapsis, with smaller airways in proportion to lung size (left) compared with normal size airways (middle), and larger than ...

Researchers of the University of Barcelona and the August Pi y Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The ...

An international research group has combined advanced single-cell technologies with studies in lung organoids to map the development of early human lung immune cells over time. Their results, which ...

Scientists have implicated a type of immune cell in the development of chronic lung disease that sometimes is triggered following a respiratory viral infection. The evidence suggests that activation ...