A Brazilian study involving nearly 900 participants under the age of 40 reinforces the idea that premature lung aging is linked not only to smoking but also to factors such as obesity and systemic ...

Severe airway inflammation impairs the ability of mice to learn when a dangerous situation is no longer a threat, suggesting that the lungs influence emotions and behaviour. This lung-brain connection ...

Eating more high-fat (HF) foods was associated with asthma-like lung inflammation, based on new data from a mouse model followed by testing on human lung tissue. Previous research has shown an ...

Researchers at the University of Calgary studying a lethal lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis have found neurons, which were known to help detect pain, are also critical for reducing harmful lung ...

The differences in male and female sex hormones are most evident during growth, puberty and reproduction, when they help ...

In IAV-infected wild-type AECII, ELOVL5 promoted inflammation resolution and cell proliferation through both regulating lipid metabolism (promoting PUFAs generation while decreasing eicosanoid levels) ...

A new study from National Jewish Health helps explain how exposure to burn pit smoke and desert dust may damage the lungs of military service members deployed to regions such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Can micro- and nanoplastics — particles too small to see with the naked eye — damage the lungs when inhaled? A South Korean research team has analyzed pulmona ...

Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes. Credit...Ibrahim Rayintakath Supported by By Dani Blum Nina Agrawal and Alice ...

New research from Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix suggests wildfire smoke may trigger harmful inflammation in the ...