Every cell in your body needs oxygen to function ... called alveoli. Your right lung has three balloon-like sections, called lobes, which are full of spongy tissue. Your left lung has only two ...

Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at ...

A research team has developed a multi-medium approach (MMA) to identify reproducible volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ...

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...

Robotic bronchoscopy can help diagnose spots in the lungs when they are still small, catching cancer sooner and saving many ...

The study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led by Prof. Sheera Adar and her graduate student Elisheva Heilbrun-Katz ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...

Alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells maintain lung health by acting as stem cells and producing pulmonary surfactant. AT2 dysfunction underlies many lung diseases, including interstitial lung disease (ILD), in ...

Historically, Pryce was the first to describe a broad spectrum of bronchopulmonary vascular malformations and proposed a classification system that included pulmonary sequestration and anomalous ...

At the predetermined time points, mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocation and subsequently, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was performed and lung tissues were quartered and processed for the ...