Our team is investigating the health risks or potential benefits of electronic cigarette use, otherwise known as ‘vaping’, relative to tobacco smoking.
New research from Dr. Stella Tommasi explores how long noncoding RNAs are disrupted by cigarette smoke, triggering inflammation and disease progression in COPD and lung cancer. Could these molecules hold the key to better diagnostics and treatments?
https://t.co/otjmDE7TcZ
Our latest paper on how lncRNAs modulate gene expression in oxidative stress, inflammation, and COPD and lung cancer | Utility for vaping research
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-026-04348-5
Our latest paper on how lncRNAs modulate gene expression in oxidative stress, inflammation, and COPD and lung cancer | utility for vaping research
https://t.co/je1vuCHY0R
In the most comprehensive study of its kind published in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (@atscommunity), USC Norris member Dr. Stella Tommasi analyzed virtually the entire genome in the cells of study participants using a state-of-the-art genetic sequencing technique and discovered that vaping showed similar DNA changes to smoking—changes that are linked to the development of cancer. Even though vaping exposes you to fewer toxic chemicals than smoking, these DNA changes suggest it still poses significant health risks. Learn more about this study here: https://t.co/K7tBby2859.
In the most comprehensive study of its kind published in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (@atscommunity), USC Norris member Dr. Stella Tommasi analyzed virtually the entire genome in the cells of study participants using a state-of-the-art genetic sequencing technique and discovered that vaping showed similar DNA changes to smoking—changes that are linked to the development of cancer. Even though vaping exposes you to fewer toxic chemicals than smoking, these DNA changes suggest it still poses significant health risks. Learn more about this study here: https://t.co/K7tBby2859.