Research suggests the problem is much closer to home than people may assume. Experts issue warning after making concerning ...

"We tested the synthetic lung cancer versus healthy human breath mixtures on approximately 20 bees." The researchers placed each live bee in a custom 3D-printed harness and attached a tiny ...

Lungs can regenerate damaged tissue, to a small extent. A sneeze can expel air from the lungs at speeds up to 100 miles per ...

The secrets of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are written in its very name. Idiopathic refers to a disease of unknown ...

Professor Martijn Nawijn, an immunologist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, tells Horizon about his quest to map every cell in a healthy human lung. He says this work should help to ...

Lung cancer remains the world’s deadliest cancer, and cigarette smoke is its chief culprit. Chemicals in tobacco, such as ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), chronic obstructive ... creating a mimic organ that is very much like actual human lungs.” The lung models are maintained under the same ...

The human lung HSCs also could restore bone marrow in HSC-deficient ... the UKRI Medical Research Council, the National Institutes of Health (R35HL161241, 1S10OD028511-01). For all funding and ...

Studies on the health effects of exposure in humans ... has studied the effects of nylon microfibers on human tissue grown to resemble lungs. Exposure to nylon fibers reduced both the number ...