Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute report they have created a new cell culture model for human alveolar macrophages in the lab. The model was developed to improve research for lung ...

Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Two types of macrophages—the white blood cells that defend the body by killing microbes, removing dead cells and ...

In a recent study published in Cell, researchers examined the wealth of information available regarding the heterogeneity of tissue macrophages. They pursued a conceptual framework for better ...

Researchers have discovered that lung-based immune cells can be "trained" to remember a previously encountered pathogen, making them more efficient at clearing out the cellular debris that accumulates ...

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 ...