Barrier organs that form boundaries between the body and the outside environment, such as the lungs, skin, and intestines, face a difficult balancing act. They must respond quickly to threats such as ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are investigating how mechanical forces—such as stretching and changes in tissue stiffness—influence viral infection rates in the lungs to understand ...

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, ...

UCLA researchers have created the first lung organoids with organotypic blood vessel networks, marking a major advancement in modeling how lungs naturally develop in the human body. The vascularized ...

Dr. Jacob A. Sands shares how antibody-drug conjugates, such as Datroway, work to selectively target and destroy tumor cells among those with lung cancer. Antibody-drug conjugates like Datroway ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured how smoking changes the mechanical behavior of human lung tissue.

Lung disease is a general term for several disorders that include airway diseases, lung tissue diseases, and lung circulation diseases, some of which may lead to respiratory failure. During the course ...

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) staging helps doctors determine how advanced the cancer is and choose the best treatment approach. Doctors typically classify SCLC into two stages: limited, where cancer ...