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Nature Medicine Healthy airways (left) show well-defined layers of ciliated cells (green) and basal stem cells (red). In airways affected by cystic fibrosis (right), the layers are disrupted, and scientists identified a transitioning cell type that combines properties of both stem cells and ciliated cells (red and green in the same cell). A team of researchers from UCLA, Cedars-Sinai and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has developed a first-of-its-kind molecular catalog of cells in healthy lungs and the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. The catalog, described today in the journal Nature Me...

FDA weighs ban on menthol cigarettes, which disproportionately addict - and kill - black Americans By The Washington Post Laura Reiley Theo Wilson avoided smoking most of his adult life. He remembered the smell of menthol from his childhood, the smell of his father's cigarettes, his aunt's and his grandmother's. The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother's life short. But in 2018, when he portrayed an Iraq War veteran in a play in Denver, his character was expected to smoke a marijuana cigarette onst...

By LAURA REILEY | The Washington Post | Published: April 20, 2021 Theo Wilson avoided smoking most of his adult life. He remembered the smell of menthol from his childhood, the smell of his father's cigarettes, his aunt's and his grandmother's. The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother's life short. But in 2018, when he portrayed an Iraq War veteran in a play in Denver, his character was expected to smoke a marijuana cigarette onstage. The prop master got him an e-cigarette with a blinking blue li...

Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:00pm Paula Jackson Jones with Senator Susan Collins in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo The second annual Fly-In, hosted by Center for Lyme Action, was held on Wednesday, Feb. 24, entirely via Zoom. Advocates from around the country attended more than 200 meetings with senators, members of Congress, and their staff. Many staffers commented positively on the day and highlighted how it allowed constituents to access a platform in which they could voice their stories and communicate to their representatives. At the event, this year’s Lyme Innovation Awards were pr...

A USC researcher and her team are focusing on the lived experiences of Black menthol cigarette smokers by asking them what they think about a recently...