A recent study published in Frontiers in Immunology discussed how injury and abnormal repair of the airway epithelium drive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. Study: Mechanisms ...

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition marked by airway inflammation, narrowing, and episodes of wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. It affects millions of people worldwide and continues ...

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of genome regions containing thousands of genetic variants associated with asthma, but it's still not clear which variants have an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 5-year project is underway to find out why children who had RSV are more likely to develop asthma. Researchers ...

For patients with moderate to severe asthma, blockade with itepekimab, a new human IgG4P monoclonal antibody against the upstream alarmin interleukin-33, led to a reduction in events that indicate ...

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have discovered that a protein called Piezo1 prevents type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) in the lung from becoming ...

“What we're trying to do is connect the dots between early life infections and ILC2s as the initial drivers of asthma susceptibility and asthma pathogenesis,” said Anna Beaudin, a hematopoietic stem ...

BOSTON -- Patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma had significantly higher odds of improvement in asthma-related sleep disturbances and improvement in activity levels when treated with tezepelumab ...