Have you ever found yourself gasping for breath and sounding worryingly similar to Darth Vader by the time you reached the top of the...

A vast array of research methods utilise the immunological power of antibodies to identify antigens of interest. That is, in a lab, if...

The Berlin wall: A metaphor for epithelial wall function? Thanks to the BALR travel award, I (and 4 other award winners) was lucky enough...

This year, the second British Lung Foundation (BLF) Alumni conference was held on the 18th March at Imperial College London. The BLF’s...

The 14th ERS Lung Science Conference (LSC) “System Approaches in Lung Disease” was held in the beautiful sunny city of Estoril, Portugal...

Pull apart and decode the human genome and you’ll find, rather surprisingly perhaps, that only 2% of it contains protein-coding genes....

The challenges faced by the mucosal sites of the airways are complex and continuous. Exposed to billions of potential threats each day,...

It has been my pleasure to help organise and chair the BTS/BALR symposium on “Epigenetics and lung disease”, which was presented at the...

This year's BALR summer meeting “Novel Concepts in Lung Biology” was held in Bath on 3 -4 September, hosted by Mark Lindsay of the...