Mini-organs offer insights into congenital conditions
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2024-03/Longorganoide_accelerate_1400x800.png?itok=LAD79i6mScientists have succeeded in cultivating stem cells from late-stage pregnancy into mini-organs.
> Read moreResearch on lung damage repair
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-06/Nella%20Dost_0.jpg?itok=KEg3y0RKAntonella Dost, one of our stem cell researchers at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, is working on promising ways to better understand and manipulate lung regeneration.
> Read more‘Chances are a surge of knowledge is coming’
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-04/Oliver%20Eickeberg.jpg?itok=wCnt1MCgFor treatments to arise, more basic knowledge is needed about COPD. To acquire this, top scientist Oliver Eickelberg put together a research team thatwas the first in the world to map the proteins in the lungs.
> Read moreA shortcut to reliable repair and growth of airway cells
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-04/Sam%20Janes%20IG_0.jpg?itok=X2lUBtJPLeading respiratory scientist Professor Sam Janes developed a rapid method to identify the needles in a haystack of drugs that stimulate growth of airway stem cells.
> Read more'We are working together towards one goal: to eliminate COPD'
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-03/overzicht.jpg?itok=R8cshzmyJos Pielage and Pieter van Eck consider their volunteering for the Patient Advisory Committee of the Longfonds research on lung tissue repair especially important. Especially for people with lung disease.
> Read moreMeeting Lung regeneration Consortium
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-01/Ed%20Morrisey.jpg?itok=FgKQgCEPEarly January, Longfonds and the Lung regeneration Consortium (BREATH) met in person for the first time since the Covid pandemic. The meeting was organized at- and hosted by- prof.dr. Ed Morrissey and his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
> Read moreAnimation of the mini-lung, a breakthrough for lung damage repair
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2022-12/Overzicht%20accelerate.jpg?itok=waK3fyl7The mini-lung is crucial for finding a solution to lung damage, such as in the severe lung disease COPD. In this video, we show how the mini-lung could provide a medical breakthrough!
> Read moreCOPD, one of the leading causes of death worldwide
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2022-11/COPD%20overzicht.jpg?itok=L0VejDD7Today is World COPD Day. The global focus on this fatal lung disease is not without reason. It is the third leading cause of death globally. Longfonds shares its mission to repair damaged lung tissue with lung health organisations worldwide.
> Read moreIt is time to take a different view of COPD
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2022-11/Frits%20Franssen%2C%20mei%202021.jpg?itok=w6dul7xWCOPD receives little attention and patients do not get the care they need. An emergency situation. Therefore, a group of international scientists set out to do something about the issues surrounding the disease.
> Read moreThe mini-lung: new results
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2022-10/Carla%20Kim%20In%20Lab%20Headshot_Accelerate%20overzicht.jpg?itok=hZerZFL8It grows in the laboratory from stem cells and is no bigger than a pinprick: the mini-lung. The insights follow each other rapidly!
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