Built using pluripotent stem cells, this tiny lung could help push science away from animal testing as well as open the doors ...

Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and despite medical advances that can now help us prevent and cure ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

An LMU research team led by Professor Olivia M. Merkel, Chair of Drug Delivery at LMU, has developed a new delivery system ...

Researchers have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The results of the study, which used organoids derived from embryonic lungs, open up new perspectives on ...

As plastic pollution continues to accumulate globally, scientists are uncovering alarming evidence that the tiniest fragments — called nanoplastics — may harm lung tissue and threaten human health.

What health risks do lunar dust pose for human astronauts? This is what a recent study published in Life Sciences in Space Research hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the impacts ...

We currently know that COPD, and specifically emphysema, is not just a lung disease found alongside lung cancer; it increases ...

Researchers of the University of Barcelona and the August Pi y Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The ...

Air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are crucial for gas exchange and provide an important barrier against inhaled viruses and bacteria that cause respiratory diseases like flu and tuberculosis (TB).

3D-printed lungs made with living cells could help to improve lung disease prevention and treatment—and potentially one day offer a lab-grown option for use in organ transplants. University of ...