Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

The frontiers of xenotransplantation have been further extended with a pig-to-human lung transplant, the first time an organ that is directly exposed to the external environment – with the associated ...

Researchers from the University of Barcelona and the August Pi y Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The ...

Northwestern Medicine surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours without lungs using a Total Artificial Lung system ...

Novel artificial lungs could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant ...

An international research group has combined advanced single-cell technologies with studies in lung organoids to map the development of early human lung immune cells over time. Their results, which ...

Many people are confused about whether our lungs actually need external support to detox or if they are self-cleaning A Pulmonologist answers ...