In the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) Australian researchers reveal how multiple chemicals found in cigarette smoke and e-cigarettes alter the function of a key type of immune cell found in ...

Today, Australian researchers reveal how multiple chemicals found in cigarette smoke and e-cigarettes alter the function of a key type of immune cell found in the lungs. Cigarette smoking is known ...

This illustration explores how smoke components in cigarette and e-cigarette smoke obscures critical molecules like Smole-binding ligands and MR1 complexes, disrupting T cell responses. Credit: Erica ...

The results of the study, which used organoids derived from embryonic lungs, open up new perspectives ... Study Links Methylmalonic Acid to Weakening of Immune Cells in Lung Cancer Oct.

Sep. 4, 2024 — Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system attack cancer cells more effectively. One of the key proteins involved in this process is ...

It started as a respiratory illness – or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was so much more.

However, exposure to cement dust throughout his career led to him being diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2019. He wanted to raise awareness to other people working in the industry about the ...

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity ...

Design Single-cell ... MDSC infiltration, thereby boosting the efficacy of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 therapy in colon cancer. Conclusion Our findings unravelled that dysfunctional goblet ...

When Rocky Mountain boys basketball coach Ivory Miles Williams learned shooting guard Tanner Sweaney had been playing with a collapsed lung, he wasn’t as surprised as you might expect.