University of Manchester biologists have for the first time started to unpick the long-term biological changes associated with serious viral lung infections, such as flu and long COVID, in a study of ...

Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James's Hospital have uncovered how the bacterium Mycobacterium avium—a leading ...

Northwestern University scientists have uncovered what they say may potentially be a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In their newly reported study, the scientists found that the lungs’ ...

P. aeruginosa was embedded into agar beads and delivered to the lungs of aged mice. Following infection, mice were monitored daily for clinical symptoms and survival. At predetermined time points, ...

New research from UVA Health finds severe COVID-19 and influenza can prime the lungs for cancer and speed the disease’s development, but vaccination can help prevent those effects. “A bad case of ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher Jie Sun, PhD, and colleagues found that serious viral infections “reprogram” immune cells in the lungs to facilitate the growth of cancer tumors ...

The lungs have a natural ability to heal. Dr. Charlotte Dean, head of the research group for lung development and lung diseases at Imperial College London, explains to The Guardian that they can ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is working with China's Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Swedish biotechnology company Lipigon Pharmaceuticals AB ...

A lung pathogen grows stronger in iron-rich environments, but at the cost of its own virulence, revealing a hidden trade-off behind chronic infection. Study: Iron dictates the growth, biofilm ...

Andes hantavirus causes deadly lung failure, but its method of attack differs from other respiratory illnesses. The details might inform future treatments.