Amoebas Reveals How Human Airway Cells Rally Against Cigarette Smoke Damage
Monday, December 14, 2015 - 09:31
in Health & Medicine
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD )is the third leading cause of death in the US and cigarette smoking is the leading cause of COPD. Currently there is no cure, current treatments are largely palliative, and new treatment targets are scarce. Now Corrine Kliment and colleagues in Doug Robinson's lab at Johns Hopkins University have found two new targets for blocking cigarette smoke-induced COPD in a surprising place--amoebas. Kliment presents the work at ASCB 2015.