Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on our health. This is the warning of an international team of researchers, ...

Beginning with the organs of respiration, it highlights the structure and function of the nose, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs, including an in-depth look at healthy and diseased lung function.

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 study in the European Respiratory Journal used advanced spatial mapping techniques to compare healthy lung tissues and ...

Smoking can cause long-term negative effects on the body, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Smoking is dangerous to your health. It can harm nearly every organ in your body and ...

The human lung HSCs could also restore bone marrow in HSC-deficient mice. The discovery confirmed Looney’s earlier discovery that the mouse lung and bone marrow complemented one another in ...

Mice with this preexisting dehydration exhibited immune cells in their lungs, indicating a high ... is a game changer for medicine, as human mucosa dehydration is currently a critical threat to human ...

The haze over parts of Florida from wildfires may not look dangerous, but it can cause severe reactions in some people.

They found hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in human lung tissue that make ... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), suggests the lungs could be a potent source for life-saving stem cell ...

The cause: The virus invades cells along the airways, causing inflammation that can attack and sometimes destroy healthy lung tissue. This can impair the lungs’ ability to deliver oxygen ...