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Researchers reveal metabolic processes key to lung repair

Crick scientists have uncovered how cells lining the lung airways change their metabolism, and how this process is key to helping the lungs heal after infection or damage.

	10 Mar 2023
	Written by Katherine Denyer
	Research buzz

Electron micrograph of airway epithelia showing specialised mucus-producing and ciliated cells

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