Pull apart and decode the human genome and you’ll find, rather surprisingly perhaps, that only 2% of it contains protein-coding genes. The majority of the leftover genes are transcribed into appropriately named non-protein-coding RNA (ncRNA). But, rather than simply ex...

The challenges faced by the mucosal sites of the airways are complex and continuous. Exposed to billions of potential threats each day, the pulmonary immune system must not only be primed to respond to inhaled pathogens from the airways, it must also be capable of qui...