lung
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Here’s the promise part: Patients treated with Insilico’s investigational drug rentosertib for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an age-related lung disease, showed a decline in their biological ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In 2024, she was told it had spread to her lung.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Nearly 2.6 million new lung cancer cases were recorded in 2024, accounting for 13% of all cancers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
These tiny particles can penetrate deep into the lungs, enter the bloodstream and have been linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, lung cancer and premature death.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The orderly spoke of my father as a little man, but he was not, not until his black lung made its final assault.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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What might pollution from a data center do, she wondered, to his growing lungs?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
More adults are also being offered another vaccine this winter to protect against RSV or Respiratory Syncytial Virus, which attacks the lungs.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Mr. Boorman managed to injure himself gravely by whipping up dust storms on the Warner Bros. lot; fungal spores got into his lungs and he contracted a rare, sometimes debilitating disease called Valley Fever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Tissue resident natural killer cells are found in locations including the skin, mucous membranes, lungs and liver.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Dara calls, looking for me on the docks as I drop off the last load of fish, yelling it at the top of her lungs.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - High School
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