On average, we breath around 20 times per minute, every minute and every hour, day, week, month and year of our lives. It is one of the first things we do immediately after birth and one of the last ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

Using human stem cells, scientists have created a miniature lung that mimics breathing and TB infection, opening new ...

Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection that can cause swelling, inflammation, and, sometimes, small semi-opaque or calcified nodules on the lungs. However, histoplasmosis does not always cause symptoms.

The chip can simulate breathing and lung disease for an individual, holding promise for testing personalized treatments for tuberculosis.

Also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, black lung disease (or miner’s lung) is typically the result of inhaling coal dust for many years that causes scarring in the lungs and makes breathing ...

Gas in Scattering Media Absorption Spectroscopy (GASMAS) is a laser-based technique for measuring gas concentrations enclosed by diffuse media. Although first demonstrated back in 2001, the technique ...