Recently, when a 14-year-old girl stepped into the bathroom for a shower, little did she know that she would land in a ...

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This paper presents the important discovery that lipid metabolic imbalance caused by Snail, an EMT-related transcription factor, contributes to the acquisition of chemoresistance in cancer cells.

Attempts to understand the complex pathobiology of the mediators of ALI have led to improvements in clinical outcomes, particularly in terms of low tidal volume ventilation. [53] Ventilation with ...

This important study describes a first-in-human trial of autologous p63+ stem cells in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lethal condition for which effective treatments are lacking. The ...

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Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain passed away in San Francisco at the age of 73 due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a severe chronic lung disorder. His death has raised awareness and questions ...

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[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and stiff and makes it hard to absorb oxygen into the bloodstream. Pulmonary fibrosis is an interstitial lung disease.