The correlation between smoking and neurodegeneration is well-documented, with one study from 2011 finding that heavy smoking ...

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 ...

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

There are many serious health conditions and diseases that affect the lungs and are associated with aging, like pneumonia, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Researchers have now ...

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

In a preclinical study published in Cancer Research, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have ...

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 ...

A team at Oregon State University has engineered lipid nanoparticles that deliver messenger RNA to lung tumors while ...