New study provides insight into lung scarring diseases without risky biopsy

Regenerative medicine researchers have created a model (using pluripotent stem cells) to show how dysfunction of a highly specialized cell of the air sacs, the type 2 pneumocyte, initiates the fibrotic cascade that characterizes a number of adult and pediatric lung diseases, including IPF and childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD).

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