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 ...

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

Analyzing the lung microbiome is challenging because the amount of bacterial DNA in the lung is very low and overlaid by human DNA. "Although we analyzed numerous control samples, the results might ...

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 ...

Segmented filamentous bacteria in the gut protected mice from lethal bacterial pneumonia after influenza by reprogramming ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Thought LeadersLiam O'Mahony, Barry Skillington & John MacSharryProf. of Immunology, Cheif Commerical Officer & Research PartnerAtlantia and Clinical Trials Though most people know that their immune ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the ...