Scientists found microplastics in samples taken from living, human lungs ... in the UK analyzed lung tissue taken from 13 patients undergoing surgeries — a relatively small sample, the authors ...

A study on the problem titled "Detection of microplastics in human lung tissue using μFTIR spectroscopy" has been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Microplastics were ...

have grown miniature human lungs in a lab dish that they say come the closest to mimicking the real thing—complete with all the myriad cell types found in the body. The small organoids of human ...

Creating lungs in the lab does not entail shuffling around big masses of tissue as you might see in a sci-fi movie. Instead, everything is small. Very small. Human lungs consist of several ...

Researchers have designed a new bioink which allows small human-sized airways to be 3D-bioprinted ... published in Advanced Materials. Chronic lung diseases are the third leading cause of death ...

Here we describe the development of a human lung 'small airway-on-a-chip' containing a differentiated, mucociliary bronchiolar epithelium and an underlying microvascular endothelium that ...

For the first time, doctors changed the blood type of human lungs — an experimental step toward creating universal organs that could be transplanted into any patient, regardless of blood type.

This is similar to what has been reported in living dogs but at variance with the prevalent concept that the small airways provide the bulk of the resistance to airflow in human lungs. The concept ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues ... By targeting the goblet cells, which make up only a small part of the lung mucosa, the bacteria can breach the defense line ...

Human fetuses have hundreds of the same sodium channels in their lung cells. They open on their own about 30 weeks into pregnancy in response to hormone signals from the fetus. Very premature ...