The research team, in collaboration with Professor Hans Clevers, has dedicated seven years to establishing the world's first ...

A fundamental challenge for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene therapy is ensuring sufficient transduction of airway epithelial cells to achieve therapeutic correction. Vehicles such as lysophosphatidylcholine ...

Researchers from the Organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new way to grow organoids. Organoids are tiny ...

Smokers' airways are hyper-reactive, meaning they sometimes can be hyper-responsive to non-noxious stimuli also, and smoking ...

Cell competition in epithelial tissue eliminates transformed cells expressing activated oncoproteins to maintain epithelial homeostasis. Although the process is now understood to be of mechanochemical ...

While HMPV is a respiratory infection, health experts have warned that it can damage your kidneys and also increase your risk ...

For instance, "epithelial" cells that line the nose ... For unknown reasons, in dry conditions, immune cells within the respiratory tract also secrete fewer chemicals, called interferons, which ...

The study found that the currently circulating H5N1 virus attached to a moderate number of epithelial cells in the upper respiratory tract, while the 2005 virus showed no capability. While avian ...