New methods and technologies within the field of lung biology are beginning to shed new
light into the microbial world of the respiratory tract. Long considered to be a sterile …

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) published its first report
for the diagnosis and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in …

The mechanistic role of the airway microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) remains largely unexplored. We present a landscape of airway microbe–host …

The lungs were long thought to be sterile until technical advances uncovered the presence
of the lung microbial community. The microbiome of healthy lungs is mainly derived from the …

Progressive lung function decline is a hallmark of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD). Airway dysbiosis occurs in COPD, but whether it contributes to disease progression …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the end result of a series of dynamic and
cumulative gene–environment interactions over a lifetime. The evolving understanding of …

Exposure to environmental pollution influences respiratory health. The role of the airway
microbial ecosystem underlying the interaction of exposure and respiratory health remains …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema,
and small airway obstruction. Incompletely reversible airflow limitation, inflammation …

Culture-independent microbiology has transformed our understanding of the respiratory
microbiome in health and disease (1). Enabled by advances in next-generation sequencing …

The last decade of microbiome research has highlighted its fundamental role in systemic
immune and metabolic homeostasis. The microbiome plays a prominent role during …