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 ...

Microscopically small pathogens are able to infect the human body and sometimes cause dangerous diseases. Here you can find ...

Researchers are using 3D printed lung tissue to study the impact of toxic fumes from substances like chlorine and ammonia on ...

It's converted to CO2 and comes out through your lungs-- one more reason to exercise. OK, you can exhale now. Those are just a few facts about a seriously phenomenal pair of organs.

These methods led to the development of severe edema in organs, especially in the lung 25. These early studies ... A blood substitute designed to replace human blood in ex vivo machine perfusion ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

For now, her family has to hold her back because she is immunocompromised after getting her second double lung transplant ... we recovered from the body of donor, the organ would go on ice ...

D printed lung tissue used to study effects of toxic vapors - accurately representing the reaction of real lung tissue inside ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...