Insights Into Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (opens in new tab)

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a terrible disease, made worse by the fact that biomedical science can do so little about it. The lung tissue (particularly around the air sacs gradually becomes thicker and stiffer as scar tissue builds up around them, and this naturally causes a decline in lung function. As you can tell from the name, the actual cause of the disease is not understood, but the effects certainly are: average life expectancy after diagnosis is about four or five years, an...