What happens inside the lungs before COVID-19 symptoms appear? Research in mink offers a rare window into the early stages of ...

Peer-reviewed study confirming strong predictive performance of patient-specific lung digital twins, validated against ...

Ebenbuild GmbH, a Munich-based deep-tech healthcare company, today announced the publication of a peer-reviewed ...

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

Human anatomy is far from complete, with ongoing discoveries reshaping understanding of variation, structure, and disease.

A hands-on pig lungs lesson helped students explore medical careers and learn whether working with patients is the right fit.

TPU researchers, as part of a scientific collaboration, have developed a spatial model that allows us to reliably predict how a medicinal aerosol is distributed in the human respiratory tract. The ...

A single Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium is small enough to ride an exhaled droplet all the way down into the deepest pocket of the lung, where a single layer of alveolar cells is all that ...

Severe pneumonia-associated lung injury remains a critical focus in infection and immunology research due to its high lethality and complex immunopathology. Affected patients often present with ...

A new ‘lung-on-chip’ model, consisting solely of genetically identical cells derived from a single person, has advanced our understanding of tuberculosis, opening the door to personalized treatments.

Air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are crucial for gas exchange and provide an important barrier against inhaled viruses and bacteria that cause respiratory diseases like flu and tuberculosis (TB).