Inhibiting ID1 and ID3 Reduces Lung Fibrosis (opens in new tab)

Lung fibrosis is challenging to treat and largely irreversible. There have been signs that clearance of senescent cells can improve the condition, but this has yet to move beyond early human safety trials. Here researchers take a more traditional approach to assessing and then tinkering with the expression of specific genes to produce a reduction in fibrosis in animal models. After finding that ID1 and ID3 exhibited elevated expression in some lung cells, they showed that reducing expression ...