{"id":78188,"date":"2018-05-02T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/experimental-lung-treatment-could-make-breathing-easier"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:08:08","slug":"experimental-lung-treatment-could-make-breathing-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/experimental-lung-treatment-could-make-breathing-easier","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Lung Treatment Could Make Breathing Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-lung-treatment-could-make-breathing-easier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An engineer in California has an invention that she hopes will someday help people with damaged lungs breathe easier.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/group\/barronlab\/\">Annelise Baron<\/a> has developed a synthetic version of something called lung surfactant. Lung surfactant coats the tiny air sacs in the lung. Without it, every breath would be a struggle, like blowing up millions of little balloons. With surfactant, breathing is as easy as blowing soap bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2015\/08\/03\/422620170\/how-a-scientists-slick-discovery-helped-save-preemies-lives\">inferred the existence<\/a> of lung surfactant in the 1950s, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov\/physicians\/biography_17.html\">Dr. Mary Ellen Avery<\/a> showed that premature infants were unable to make surfactant, explaining the often fatal respiratory distress syndrome they suffered from.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/05\/01\/607373219\/experimental-lung-treatment-could-make-breathing-easier\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/05\/01\/6073732...ing-easier<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engineer in California has an invention that she hopes will someday help people with damaged lungs breathe easier. Stanford University\u2019s Annelise Baron has developed a synthetic version of something called lung surfactant. Lung surfactant coats the tiny air sacs in the lung. Without it, every breath would be a struggle, like blowing up millions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78298,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78188\/revisions\/78298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}