Capitainer participates in global AI project for advanced lung diagnostics

New project combines AI and self-sampling

04-Dec-2024 - Capitainer, a Swedish MedTech start-up specializing in self-sampling solutions, plays a key role in the international AIR project (Artificial Intelligence Radiology) aimed at improving the diagnostics and monitoring of lung diseases. Through Capitainer's innovative technology, patients can easily ...

Young talent award for research into the health effects of Saharan dust

Who hasn’t experienced it, the annoying desert dust that settles on cars from time to time?

11-Apr-2024 - Gerrit Bredeck was awarded the Rudolf Buchheim Prize of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT) for his work on the health effects of Saharan dust. He conducted his research as doctoral student in the working group of Dr. Roel Schins at the IUF - ...

Paper-based device developed for rapid diagnosis of lung diseases

CSIC researchers have coordinated the design of an instrument that combines paper microfluidics and electrochemical transduction.

03-Aug-2023 - A device that combines microfluidics on paper, electrochemical transduction and immunoassays on magnetic nanoparticles is capable of detecting biomarkers of inflammation in sputum samples, useful for the easy and rapid diagnosis of lung diseases. The research is coordinated by the Institute of ...

First Integrated Single-Cell Atlas of the Human Lung

This atlas elucidates the diversity of single lung cell types and allows learning about lung biology in health and disease

15-Jun-2023 - Can a human organ be mapped on a single-cell level to learn more about each individual cell? And can we learn how different these cells are from person to person? Helmholtz Munich researchers and their collaborators have taken up this challenge and developed the Human Lung Cell Atlas using ...

Digital support for inhalation treatment for chronic respiratory diseases

VisionHealth successfully closes financing round

02-Mar-2023 - VisionHealth GmbH, a pioneer in digital therapeutics (DTx) to enhance inhaled treatment of chronic lung diseases, announced the successful closing of a 3 million Euro pre-series A financing led by DB Speciality Invest GmbH & Co. KG, Neu-Ulm, Germany. The investment firm is owned by the successful ...

When macrophage digestion goes wrong

If a secretion in the lungs’ alveoli is not cleared regularly, breathing difficulties can develop.

20-Sep-2022 - In a study published in Science Immunology, a team led by Alexander Mildner and Achim Leutz has now explained the pivotal role of the transcription factor C/EBPb in this process. The exchange of gases between the air we breathe and our blood takes place via alveoli – tiny air sacs in our lungs. ...

DNA guardians out of control

Our own immune system can become the enemy when mechanisms that are actually protective get out of control

29-Aug-2022 - In ANCA-associated vasculitis, excessive inflammatory reactions lead to pulmonary hemorrhages that can be fatal if left untreated. Researchers at the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and England, have deciphered a mechanism in mice and ...

AI performs as well as medical specialists in analyzing lung disease

02-Aug-2022 - A Nagoya University research group has developed an AI algorithm that accurately and quickly diagnoses idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease. The algorithm makes its diagnosis based only on information from non-invasive examinations, including lung images and medical information collected ...

A spray to protect against lung damage from Covid-19

Startup develop an RNA-based drug

18-Jan-2022 - rnatics, a startup at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has created an RNA-based drug to prevent lung damage from infections as seen in serious Covid-19 cases. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing 7 million euros in funding to support the development of the ...

New lung 'organoids' in a dish mimic features of full-size lung

17-May-2017 - New lung "organoids"--tiny 3-D structures that mimic features of a full-sized lung--have been created from human pluripotent stem cells by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The team used the organoids to generate models of human lung diseases in a lab dish, which could be ...