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 ...

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.

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 ...

Successful transplants have increased in Maine and across the nation over the past five years as awareness grows and the ...

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

The human body is composed of over 37 trillion ... of parts of the airways with healthy cells. Where a lung has been removed, the remaining lung has to adapt to support the tissues of the body and ...

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

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 ...