Medical Xpress October 8, 2025
Lung diseases like tuberculosis and cystic fibrosis can be difficult to treat. In part, that’s because the two-dimensional models researchers use to study the diseases don’t accurately reflect the shape of human lungs—and animal models don’t behave like humans do when they encounter disease.
University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers from the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) and the College of Engineering are working to build a better model.
“We’ve realized that we’re lacking a realistic model for lung diseases… and that means that we can’t really plan a better strategy for lung therapies,” says VIDO’s Dr. Nuraina Dahlan, one of the scientists working to make a three-dimensional lung tissue model.
A 3D model, she says, would provide a more...
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