Among healthy adults, inhaling wood smoke for 2 hours negatively impacted the lung microbiome by raising the amount of ...

Northwestern University scientists have potentially uncovered a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In a new study, scientists found the lungs' own microbial community, or microbiome, ...

UF Health Cancer Institute scientists found a bacterial compound that may double lung cancer treatment effectiveness in mice.

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers showed that a small molecule made by gut bacteria doubled lung cancer immunotherapy ...

Northwestern University scientists have uncovered what they say may potentially be a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In their newly reported study, the scientists found that the lungs’ ...

New research suggests vesicles from the Salvia miltiorrhiza plant may treat acute lung injury (ALI) by reducing inflammation ...

Dust from California’s drying Salton Sea doesn’t just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs. Genetic or ...

Emerging insights into the gut-lung axis continue to open new possibilities for managing chronic respiratory diseases, from cystic fibrosis (CF) in the youngest patients to chronic obstructive ...

Blue-colored electron microscope image of Pandoraea sputorum, a pathogen from the lung microbiome that has been little studied to date. Bacteria of the genus Pandoraea have not been studied much to ...