At about 27.5cm (11in) long and nearly 15cm (6in) wide, the lungs are your largest organ but together weigh only about two pounds. Adult lungs contain more than 600 million microscopic air sacs ...

The study has been carried out thanks to the generation and establishment of organoids derived from embryonic lungs between ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

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, ...

Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

NEW BOSTON, Michigan (WWJ) — A special education teacher at Huron High School in New Boston, Michigan, gathered with students on Wednesday to make blankets for families of organ donors.

In 2010, his team created the first lung-on-a-chip, a small in vitro model ... things that are very hard to tease out in clinical trials. Organ chips allow you to effectively begin to approach human ...