A new study has provided some of the clearest evidence yet of how smoking physically damages human lungs. For the first time, ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured how smoking changes the mechanical behavior of human lung tissue.

Sensome, the pioneer of microsensing technology for real-time, intra-operative tissue analysis, today announced positive results from its first-in-human INSPECT study evaluating its microsensor ...

Barrier organs that form boundaries between the body and the outside environment, such as the lungs, skin, and intestines, ...

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it's too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets specific lung cells and has developed a ...

The worst damage from COVID-19 was first measured in fevers, oxygen levels and death counts. Now, years later, researchers ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have developed a 3D bio-printed model that closely mimics the complexity of natural lung tissue, an innovation that could transform how scientists study lung disease and ...

And randomized trial shows safety is on par ...