How organ-on-a-chip technology could help asthma sufferers

A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop a model of the human small airway in which lung inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of mortality worldwide, can be studied outside the human body.....

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Hunterdon Central senior dies from severe asthma attack

FLEMINGTON— After suffering an allergic reaction that led to a severe asthma attack, Hunterdon Central Regional High School senior Katherine Cassidy Schaefer, 18, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 30, according to her obituary.
Katherine, known as Kaycee to her friends and family, worked with her family on Schaefer Farms in Readington and was enrolled in the Polly Tech Animal Science program.....

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Asthma Needs Control of Indoor Air Quality

It’s not your imagination: Asthma is on the rise. There are probably a whole host of reasons why an estimated 5 million people were added to the asthma rolls over the past 10 years alone. That makes 25 million of us wheezing and struggling to breathe. Not a pretty picture.....

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