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Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A glitch in the mechanical process<\/a> that drives normal turnover of epithelial cells lining the lungs could be to blame, researchers report in the April 5 Science<\/em>. Better understanding of this physical force underpinning chronic asthma attacks might lead to new ways of combating the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n