Air sacs in the lungs called alveoli are crucial for gas exchange and provide an important barrier against inhaled viruses and bacteria that cause respiratory diseases like flu and tuberculosis (TB).

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 ...

Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, have developed a system that allows human lung organoids to expand in a breathing-like manner by applying pressure from ...

Precision-cut lung slices allow researchers to study living human lung tissue outside the body, preserving the different cell ...

Human mini-lungs grown by University of Manchester scientists can mimic the response of animals when exposed to certain nanomaterials. The study is published in Nano Today. Though not expected to ...

A single Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium is small enough to ride an exhaled droplet all the way down into the deepest pocket of the lung, where a single layer of alveolar cells is all that ...

New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and the University of Liverpool (UOL) provides the first comprehensive look at how a hidden immune cell army defends the vast, ...

A lung affected by deadly forms of COVID-19 not only loses essential cells for breathing but also undergoes profound changes ...