University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have identified a new way that common Aspergillus molds can induce asthma, by first attacking the protective tissue barrier deep in the lungs. In both mice ...

Inhalation therapy for asthma and other obstructive lung diseases often loses its effect following prolonged use. A research team has now shown an alternative signalling pathway through which the body ...

A new study on a mouse model of asthma shows that nerve cells producing dopamine, a neurotransmitter, signal T cells in the body to promote inflammation due to allergic reactions in the lungs during ...

As the English poet John Donne famously wrote in 1624, “No organ is an island.” Or at least, that’s what he would have written if he had been a psychoneuroimmunologist instead of a poet. Today, ...

Scientists have discovered a new way in which the lungs operate during asthma that could lead to new treatments for the disease. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that. A glitch in the ...

A preclinical study led by scientists at King’s College London, and at the University of Leicester, suggests that preventing the mechanical damage caused by an asthma attack, rather than treating the ...

There’s not much good that can be said about asthma, a breathing disease in which the airways become narrowed and inflamed. But there’s this: People with asthma seem to be less likely to develop brain ...

Asthma has been associated with a lowered risk of brain tumors, and researchers now think they know why: Immune cells activated under conditions of asthma are less able to promote the growth of brain ...