Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New study probes macrophages' role in developing pulmonary fibrosis

Scientists have long known that white blood cells called macrophages accumulate in the lungs of people suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. What role macrophages play in developing the often fatal lung disease is less clear.

Oncology & Cancer

Potential therapeutic target for small cell lung cancer discovered

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that inhibiting a chromatin remodeling complex associated with a particular gene in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) cells may decrease cancer cell differentiation and tumor ...

Oncology & Cancer

Using cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer

A team of medical researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed a way to use cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer. In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group used fast liquid ...

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