The mere motions of breathing are known to influence vital functions of the lungs, including their development in babies, the production of air-exchange-enhancing fluid on their inner surfaces, and ...

Scientists in China have reported transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a human. The 39-year-old patient was a brain dead individual and the lungs were viable and functioning for nine ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

Explore the fascinating world of the human body with this animated science video. Dive into topics such as lung function, ...

A new type of cell that resides deep within human lungs and may play a key role in human lung diseases has been discovered. A new type of cell that resides deep within human lungs and may play a key ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

Few places on Earth — or in our bodies — seem to be free of microplastics. Researchers in recent months have announced the discovery of microplastics traveling in the bloodstream of a handful of ...

For the first time, scientists have found microplastics in the lungs of living people. The research, which was accepted into the peer-reviewed journal Science of the Total Environment March 25, ...

(CN) — Microplastics are a toxic pollutant found in the ocean, soil, air, and in human lungs. While scientists first discovered plastic particles in human airways last year, a new study reveals where ...

Concern about microplastics has risen to new heights in recent weeks after researchers confirmed they had been detected in human blood and lungs for the first time. The full health implications of ...

A study on the problem titled "Detection of microplastics in human lung tissue using μFTIR spectroscopy" has been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Microplastics were detected ...