After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs.

A new research paper titled "Modulating in vitro lung fibroblast activation via senolysis of senescent human alveolar epithelial cells" has been published in Aging. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ...

In a study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an interdisciplinary team of researchers analyzed whether alveolar epithelial cell necrosis at an early stage of severe acute respiratory ...

Meyer began culturing organ-like structures – referred to as spheroids - in his laboratory in the mid-1990s, at what was then the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen. Together with surgical ...

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease of lung parenchymal scarring that is triggered by ...

Human stem cells administered intravenously can restore alveolar epithelial tissue to a normal function in a novel ex vivo perfused human lung after E. coli endotoxin-induced acute lung injury ...

DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00131.2024 Emily T. Wilson et al, Transcriptomic changes in oxidative stress, immunity, and cancer pathways caused by cannabis vapor on alveolar epithelial cells, Cell Biology and ...

AECI denotes type I alveolar epithelial cell, AECII type II alveolar epithelial cell, Ang-2 angiopoietin-2, APC activated protein C, CC-16 club cell (formerly Clara cell) secretory protein 16 ...