The Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF), in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim, grants two-year $250,000 awards to ...
What happens when people unknowingly eat, drink or inhale nearly invisible pieces of plastic? Although it’s unclear what impact this really has on humans, researchers have now taken a step toward ...
Imaging and quantifying the biodistribution of APP2-targeted PAMAM dendritic NPs. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-024-01786-z. In recent years, bio-medical engineers have ...
As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones—such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it ...
The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they'll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set. It's a little-known twist of ...
About one third of lung transplant recipients have a genetic variant that makes them more likely to develop chronic lung ...
While dazzling fireworks light up the sky with joy and excitement, they can also unleash a wave of harmful pollutants during festivities. Studies highlight a troubling rise in dangerous particles like ...
Researchers have developed a lab-grown living lung model that mimics the tiny air sacs of the lungs where coronavirus infection and serious lung damage take place. This advance has enabled virologists ...