The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs, where the blood releases waste gases and picks up oxygen. The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium.

Our lungs are not identical. Our right lung has three lobes, and the left lung only two to make room for our heart. Lungs are ...

in human lung tissue that make red blood cells, as well as megakaryocytes, which produce the platelets that form blood clots. The findings appear Feb. 27 in Blood. The work, which was supported by the ...

Ever since Austrian scientists first began looking for them in people in 2018, microplastics have turned up in the blood, ...

This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings ... the use of medical intervention like the heart-lung machine and artificial pace makers.

The same ECMO technology, which supports the heart and lungs when the body cannot ... levels were one of the lowest I've ever seen in a human talking. It was something else," Dr. Christensen ...

The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs, where the blood releases waste gases and picks up oxygen. The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium.

They found hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in human lung tissue that make red ... The work, which was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes ...