Sep 19, 2013
NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Researcher Finding Cellular Causes of Lung-Hardening Disease
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, or IPF, is an incurable lung disease that, over time, turns healthy lung tissue into inflexible scar tissue – hardening the lungs and eventually causing respiratory distress and death. Currently, there is no cure. Phil Sannes, a professor of cell biology in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences in the NC State College…