A groundbreaking UCSF study challenges the long-held belief that blood is solely produced in bone marrow. Researchers discovered that lungs contain active blood-forming stem cells, capable of ...

Published in Nature Communications, the study shows that a small gene named let-7 functions as a guardian of the lungs’ health and healing processes. When the gene is absent in mice, injured lungs are ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have identified a previously overlooked protein, ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have developed a 3D bio-printed model that closely mimics the complexity of natural lung tissue, an ...

While exhaust fumes have long been recognised as a health hazard, new research suggests that the microscopic particles released when vehicles brake, may be even more harmful to human lungs.

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.