Vanda Pinto, PhD, science writer —

A Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in the U.K. has been awarded a £500,000 (nearly $700,000) grant to develop a computational model of the lung — a sort of “virtual lung” — that may be a game-changer in the development of new therapies and in the ways of caring…

Lung function and quality of life remained stable over three years of follow-up among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treated with targeted lung denervation (TLD) — a new therapy developed by Nuvaira — according to the results of a clinical trial. That trial, called AIRFLOW-1 (…