Turns Out Your Lungs Love a Good Sigh, Study Claims

Taking a deep breath restores the ideal “layering” of lung fluids, according to a new experiment.

The fungi living in the body play an important role in health – here’s what you should know about the ‘mycobiome’

Changes in the fungal mycobiome have also been linked to several gut diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease. Research on Crohn’s disease has also shown that patients have an overgrowth of ...

Scientists Begin $14.2 Million Project To Decode the Body’s “Hidden Sixth Sense”

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does ...
ucdavis.edu

Bone Basics: How Many Bones Are in the Human Body?

The From Labs to Lives Blog provides clear, accessible explainers on everyday topics for which UC Davis has expertise. Each post is reviewed by faculty or subject-matter experts, ensuring readers get ...
The Mirror

Human body found at waste site as forensic teams investigate remains

A human body has been discovered at a waste site with police launching an investigation. Cleveland Police were called to the SUEZ facility at Haverton Hill Road, in Billingham, at 1.45pm on Wednesday, ...
Medical Xpress

First 'perovskite camera' can see inside the human body

Physicians rely on nuclear medicine scans, like SPECT scans, to watch the heart pump, track blood flow and detect diseases hidden deep inside the body. But today's scanners depend on expensive ...
katu

Human body parts in Tualatin River likely a recent death, officials say

HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) — Officials say the human body parts found in the Tualatin River that have led to a homicide investigation are likely the result of a recent death based on the level of ...
thorax.bmj

Body mass index is associated with the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome

Environmental Health Department (Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr D C Christiani, ...
Popular Mechanics

Every Human Body Gives Off an Invisible Glow. Here’s What It Means.

“You’re glowing” is a well-known complimentary phrase meant to convey a perceived level of health, happiness, or other biological condition—pregnancies often inspire the platitude, for example. But in ...
Business Wire

Results from the VirTus Respiratory Research Ltd Human Rhinovirus Challenge Model Used to Advance Altesa BioSciences’ Lead Medicine into Advanced Clinical Trials

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VirTus Respiratory Research Ltd, a leading respiratory-focused contract research organisation (CRO), today announced that results from their human rhinovirus challenge model ...
MIT Technology Review

Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine

Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages. Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for ...
Reuters

China steps up monitoring of emerging respiratory diseases

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - China's diseases control authority said on Friday that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin, with cases of some respiratory diseases expected ...