Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) provides a platform for testing therapies but faces challenges in standardizing drug evaluation. At AAPS PharmSci 360, Xuanzi Zhou says digital twins accurately predict ...

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled the procedure.

Lung diseases like tuberculosis and cystic fibrosis can be difficult to treat. In part, that's because the two-dimensional models researchers use to study the diseases don't accurately reflect the ...

What health risks do lunar dust pose for human astronauts? This is what a recent study published in Life Sciences in Space Research hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the impacts ...

One of the biggest concerns with upper respiratory tract infections, like the common cold or a nasal infection, is the ...

3D-printed lungs made with living cells could help to improve lung disease prevention and treatment—and potentially one day offer a lab-grown option for use in organ transplants. University of ...