Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life ...

miRNA and mRNA expression were compared to enrich for biological networks relevant to the pathogenesis of COPD. Methods Lung tissue from smokers with no evidence of obstructive lung disease (n=9) and ...

After surgery, an air leak can form. This problem is usually transient and self-limited and occurs in approximately 50% of people who have part of their lung tissue removed. Usually, the problem ...

I’ve been an off and on smoker since I first pinched one of my dad’s cigarettes when I was 12 years old – I’ve been dabbling ...

Lung cancer survival rates can be as high as 98% for certain cancers diagnosed in an early stage, and as low as 4% for those diagnosed with more aggressive cancers in advanced stages. Survival rates ...

This valuable study reports on the critical role of ANKRD5 (ANKEF1) in sperm motility and male fertility. However, the supporting data remain incomplete. This work will be of interest to biomedical ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Very early exposure to even a very small dose of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in infant mice can lead to cognitive decline later in life, according to new findings. This is ...

The glucoregulatory functions of pancreatic islets are affected by their surrounding niche and spatial organization. Here, bioengineered stem-cell derived islet niches use bioprinting-based ...

Don’t Blow Your Nose So Hard Why: You may want to give a big blow into a tissue whenever your nose ... can enhance the function of nasal cilia, those microscopic hairs that are responsible ...

On this page we present research groups and units in otorhinolaryngology (diseases of the ear, nose, and throat), audiology, and logopaedics (speech disorders) at Karolinska Institutet. The list is ...