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Image shows Dr Christian Baer from the Hannover Medical School, in Lower Saxony, Germany, undated photo. He examined the influence of telomere lengths in organs and immune system on lung and heart diseases. (Karin Kaiser, MHH/Newsflash)

Can The Immortality Enzyme Beat Old Age, Study

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:February 7, 2023

Scientists in Germany are to study ways of using immortality enzymes to reverse damage caused to the heart and lungs by ageing. The study - led by Dr Christian Baer…

Read more about the article Doctors Carry Out Rare Cutting Edge Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Transplant Surgery To Help Premature Baby Boy Grow Lungs

A baby boy, named Yavuz Selim Cihan, (pictured) who was prematurely born when he was 23 weeks old in Tekirdag, Turkey, holds on to life thanks to the mesenchymal stem cell treatment he received for his lung development. (Newsflash)

Doctors Carry Out Rare Cutting Edge Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Transplant Surgery To Help Premature Baby Boy Grow Lungs

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:March 17, 2022

Doctors have performed a rare, cutting-edge stem cell transplant surgery on a baby boy who was born prematurely and weighing only 495 grammes to help him develop his tiny lungs.…

Professor Michael Braungart (left), director at the Hamburg Environmental Institute and co-founder of the world-renowned Cradle to Cradle environmental standard.

Experts Reveal That Wearing Face Masks For Long Time Could Lead To Chemical Accumulation In Lungs

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:April 12, 2021

Independent studies by two German scientists have revealed that wearing face masks in the long term could result in an accumulation of various chemicals and microplastics in the lungs. Dr…

Column 1 and 2 show lung ultrasounds without and with annotated COVID-19 biomarkers (orange: moderate, red: severe). Columns 3 and 4 respectively show the semantic segmentations and contours of COVID-19 markers by means of deep learning analysis

Dutch AI Invention Determines COVID-19 Damage In Minutes

Post author:Delano Langras
Post published:May 20, 2020

Dutch scientists have created an artificial intelligence algorithm that can determine in minutes the severity of the damage caused to the lungs from COVID-19 by using data from coronavirus hit…