Lung cancer is hard to catch early and even harder to survive once it is found. A new clinical trial will test whether a ...

Imaging and quantifying the biodistribution of APP2-targeted PAMAM dendritic NPs. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-024-01786-z. In recent years, bio-medical engineers have ...

As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones—such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it ...

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 ...

What happens when people unknowingly eat, drink or inhale nearly invisible pieces of plastic? Although it’s unclear what impact this really has on humans, researchers have now taken a step toward ...

The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they'll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set. It's a little-known twist of ...

A new study from the University of Technology in Sydney reveals that high doses of vitamin C can significantly reduce lung injury caused by PM2.5 particles. Researchers found that vitamin C ...

The human body works in complex ways—sometimes, certain motions are so small that it’s easy to miss how they might cause discomfort in the body. In this way, the surface tissues in our lungs actually ...