You may not realize, though, how much tobacco changes your lungs and their ability to bring oxygen into your body. The damage becomes clear when you look at the differences between healthy lungs a ...

Survival rates for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are worse than all solid cancers except for lung and pancreatic cancer. | ...

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

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets ...

Researchers have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development ... professor at the UB's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and researcher of the IDIBAPS ...

The study, published in the journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy, is led by Alfons Navarro, professor at the UB's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and head of the IDIBAPS research group on ...

Exposure to poor air quality can lead to immediate and long-term respiratory problems, while short-term effects include ...

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant in the world.