SCIREQ Blog

Studies addressing the potential risks associated with electronic cigarette (e-cig) usage are urgently needed, given their rising use and popularity, especially in youth.  Coordinated efforts are [...]

  The European Respiratory Society (ERS) congress is taking place in Paris next week, September 15th to 19th. This is the largest meeting of respiratory professionals in the world and we are [...]

We are pleased to announce the publication of another video article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). “[…] JoVE is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to [...]

SCIREQ is proud to support FASEB’s Lung Epithelium in Health and Diseases conference which will take place from July 29th to August 3rd, 2018 in St. Bonaventure, NY. The scientific research [...]

A momentous symposium was held at Stanford university last year to commemorate the 50th anniversary since the original description of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) was first articulated1  by [...]

When working with obese mice, what weight should be used when performing flexiVent measurements? This question is quite an important one for two reasons. First, there is a substantial difference [...]

Although often necessary, mechanical ventilation of small animals during pulmonary measurements can lead to both acute and chronic damage to their lungs, also known as ventilator-induced lung [...]

ATS is just around the corner and we hope to see you in San Diego! We are looking forward to learning more about respiratory research, especially these interesting flexiVent poster sessions: [...]

emka & SCIREQ offer a unique perspective into the preclinical study of heart and lung diseases, allowing for novel insights into cardiopulmonary diseases such as heart failure, arrhythmia, [...]

Oxygen deficiency or hypoxia can contribute to the development or exacerbation of many disorders including strokes or chronic lung diseases. The first defense against hypoxia is the hypoxic [...]