Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transplanting a patients’ own lung cells back into their lungs resulted in improved breathing. Lung damage was ...

Milan, Italy: For the first time, researchers have shown it is possible to repair damaged lung tissue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the patients’ own lung cells.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) --Recent advances in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease offer patients more hope in easing discomfort from a condition that can cause severe airflow blockage and ...

Alveolar macrophages under the microscope showing deposits of black carbon. L - smaller deposits in cells from a smoker, R - larger deposits in cells from COPD patient. Cells taken from the lungs of ...

Smoking causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Some people with this disease have high levels of eosinophil cells, which is typical of the type 2 category of inflammation, and blocking such ...

SMSbiotech, a San Diego–based leader in regenerative medicine, today announced the initiation of its first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My wife has COPD. She is not coping very well. Her doctors are treating her with the standard medications. She has heard about an experimental treatment where they take her stem cells ...

Severe gum disease has been linked to the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, but an understanding of how the connection plays out in the immune system remains unclear. This ...