How RSV manipulates the immune response in respiratory cells

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can cause severe lower respiratory tract infections, particularly in newborns and older ...
Medical Xpress

Respiratory viruses can wake up breast cancer cells in the lungs

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), and Utrecht University have found the first direct evidence that common ...
Nature

Ventilator-integrated humidified cold atmospheric plasma enables safe eradication of lung cancer cells and supports respiratory therapeutic applications

Respiratory viral infections, including COVID-19 and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), are primarily transmitted through aerosolized droplets that carry infectious viral particles within the ...
Nature

Human respiratory airway progenitors derived from pluripotent cells generate alveolar epithelial cells and model pulmonary fibrosis

Human lungs contain unique cell populations in distal respiratory airways or terminal and respiratory bronchioles (RA/TRBs) that accumulate in persons with lung injury and idiopathic pulmonary ...
The Scientist

Respiratory Viruses Wake Up Dormant Cancer Cells

Seeing a trend in increased cancer deaths in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer biologists Julio Aguirre-Ghiso at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and James DeGregori at the ...
News Medical

Respiratory viruses awaken dormant breast cancer cells and raise relapse risk

In a recent study published in Nature, an international team of researchers showed that respiratory viral infections awaken dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs. Breast cancer is the most ...

Researchers reveal the pathogenesis of a rare respiratory disease through super-resolution microscopy

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have uncovered how mutations in a specific gene can trigger a rare respiratory disease, shedding light on the critical role ...
GEN

Common Respiratory Viral Infections Awaken Dormant Breast Cancer Cells in Lungs

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), and Utrecht University have found what they suggest is the first direct ...
Medical Xpress

Rare immune cells offer new hope for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome

Basophils, a type of white blood cell, promote recovery from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in mice, according to researchers at Science Tokyo. In a mouse model of ARDS, basophils were ...
Phys.org

Single-cell RNA analysis reveals key immune mechanisms in lungs of pigs infected with reproductive and respiratory virus

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54676-2 While fewer than 5% of macrophages were directly infected by virus, cell death and immune responses were widespread, indicating that extracellular vesicles or exosomes ...
EurekAlert!

Respiratory viruses can wake up breast cancer cells in lungs

Researchers have found the first direct evidence that common respiratory infections can awaken dormant breast cancer cells that have spread to the lungs, setting the stage for new metastatic tumors ...
EurekAlert!

Rare immune cells offer new hope for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome

In experiments with ARDS model mice, researchers from Japan found that basophils, a type of white blood cells, release interleukin-4, a signaling molecule that suppresses inflammatory neutrophils ...