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Allergy, Genetics

A first mouse with asthma?

One of the main reasons that there is not so much progress in asthma and COPD research is a missing good animal model. Despite some caveats such a model could tremendously push a field. A new editorial in the AJRRCCM now believes there could be such a model: Continue reading A first mouse with asthma? →

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Allergy

Beam me up, Scotty, ….

This is the title of an editorial in The Am J Respir Crit Care Med commenting on current asthma research.
Another editorial in the ERJ asks “The human lung: did evolution get it wrong?”
So I am confused: Did pulmonary science or lung evolution (or both) get it wrong?

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