An unexpected group of cells generates the coronary arteries and may be useful for regeneration therapies following injury to the heart.

The kidney can mediate its own repair through proliferation of resident immune system cells.

It may be possible to fight hospital-acquired pathogens like Acinetobacter baumannii by targeting the bacterium’s need for the nutrient metal zinc.

Archived tissue samples are yielding new disease biomarkers.

A rare genetic syndrome provides new clues to lung scarring (pulmonary fibrosis), a potentially deadly consequence of many lung diseases.

The machinery that builds the characteristic shape of epithelial cells suppresses breast cancer formation and metastasis in a mouse model.

An inherited lung disease does not appear to have earlier onset and increased severity – a phenomenon called genetic anticipation – in successive generations.