In this review, we mainly discuss the current state of knowledge regarding the process of alveolar macrophage development and its role in the pathogenesis of PAP. Our aim is to provide an update on ...

Diverse endocytic processes play a key role in all phases of acute lung injury (ALI), including the initial insult, development of respiratory failure due to alveolar flooding ... had no impact on the ...

Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the ...

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

Researchers have been trying for decades to stop the cells that damage the lung in people with pulmonary fibrosis. Now a team ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Background Early-life inflammation has long been recognised as a key pathophysiological process in the evolution of cystic ...

Cells cope with altered chromosome numbers by enhancing protein breakdown Muhar and colleagues report the development of a method using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to identify E3 ligases that ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders ...

A drug that limits the clustering of malignant breast-cancer cells that are moving through the bloodstream to distant organs might open avenues to block the lethal spread of a tumour. Read the ...

This dramatic development continues into the first years of childhood. After an early boom period, a process of refinement and reduction sets in: childrens' and adolescents' brains respond to ...