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Is it true that … your lungs regenerate when you quit smoking? | Health & wellbeing

Is it true that … your lungs regenerate when you quit smoking? | Health & wellbeing

Published by Sam Flores

It used to be thought that the lungs couldn’t regenerate,” says Dr Charlotte Dean, head of the lung development and disease group at Imperial College London. “But we know now that’s not the case. Broadly speaking, they can repair when you quit smoking.” Smoking is in effect damaging your lungs, Dean says, and the lungs have a substantial capacity to heal themselves. They have evolved to cope with pollution or getting infected by bacteria or viruses. “Because they’re so vital – you can’t survive without your lungs – they needed to have this capacity,” she says. double quotation mark While it’s broadly true that you can revert back to much better lung health, it doesn’t mean that you’re out of the woods Dean says this shouldn’t be used as an excuse to smoke, though; smoking and vaping expose your lungs to more toxic particles than they can cope with. Importantly, everyone is different and some people’s lungs will not be able to regenerate as well as others and so will be much more susceptible to permanent tissue damage from smoking. “While it’s broadly true that …

Study reveals new way to fully regenerate skin without scarring

Study reveals new way to fully regenerate skin without scarring

Published by Jenni Sidey

A cut in the womb can vanish almost without a trace. The same injury a few days after birth leaves behind a scar. That sharp shift, described in a March 20 study in Cell, helps explain why skin loses much of its ability to rebuild itself so quickly, and it points to a possible way to restore some of that lost talent. In mice, Harvard stem cell biologists found that blocking a signal tied to excess nerve growth let wounded skin regenerate a far wider range of cell types instead of healing with the usual fibrous scar. “Essentially, we found a way to make wound healing outcome a lot better by learning how embryos do this so well,” said senior author Ya-Chieh Hsu, a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. That matters because skin repair is often mistaken for true regeneration. After injury, the surface usually closes. Beneath it, though, much of the organ does not come back the way it was. Graphical abstract …

ReGenerate by Jessica Stollings and Dr. Karah Sprouse

ReGenerate by Jessica Stollings and Dr. Karah Sprouse

Published by Jenni Sidey

Picture this: a Baby Boomer shows up to a studio interview in his finest suit and a bold red tie. Across the table at a different company, a Gen Zer walks into a job interview wearing his best sneakers. Neither one is being disrespectful. Both believe they are presenting their absolute best. And therein lies the crux of the generational puzzle that ReGenerate: Empowering Generations to Work with (and Not Against) Each Other by Jessica Stollings and Dr. Karah Sprouse sets out to solve. This revised and expanded edition, building on the original 2019 version authored solely by Jessica Stollings, arrives at an inflection point for the American workforce. With up to five generations sharing office space, conference calls, and Slack channels, organizations face communication friction that no amount of pizza parties can fix. Stollings, a nationally recognized speaker with over two decades of field experience, has partnered with Dr. Karah Sprouse, a former college professor and Gen Z researcher, to deliver something rare in the self-help genre: a book grounded equally in academic rigor …