On average, we breath around 20 times per minute, every minute and every hour, day, week, month and year of our lives. It is one of the first things we do immediately after birth and one of the last ...

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, ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

A group of nano-bioengineers in Australia have developed a method for fabricating patient-specific human lung replicas in just 28 days. The method represents a unique milestone in the development of ...