When breast cancer spreads beyond the breast, it becomes much more dangerous. The lungs are one of the most common places ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

Researchers at the CU Anschutz Cancer Center have discovered how breast cancer cells that spread to the lungs may take ...

Cells taken from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a larger accumulation of soot-like carbon deposits compared to cells taken from people who smoke but do not ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Why are the elderly so much more likely to get sick and hospitalized for pneumonia and COVID? UCSF scientists found that old ...

There are many serious health conditions and diseases that affect the lungs and are associated with aging, like pneumonia, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Researchers have now ...

Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San ...