By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. New imaging reveals how subtle lung changes may influence sleep and brain activity years after COVID, offering clues to why symptoms persist even when routine tests look ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2022 – Alveoli are the basic functional units of the human respiratory system, acting as tiny air sacs that exchange gases. Air inhaled through the mouth and nose flows into the ...

When we breathe, air moves through the small passage-like bronchioles of our lungs until it reaches the alveoli. These tiny sac-like structures contain a micron-thick hydrophobic epithelial membrane ...

With the first breath, the lungs require to develop immunological defense mechanisms while maintaining the gas exchange. The postnatal immunological development of the lungs remained largely unknown ...

Inhaled recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) needed to clear lung surfactant improved lung gas exchange in the rare autoimmune condition pulmonary alveolar ...

Alveoli are the basic functional units of the human respiratory system, acting as tiny air sacs that exchange gases. Air inhaled through the mouth and nose flows into the lungs through the branched ...

Your lungs are vital for providing your body with fresh oxygen while ridding it of carbon dioxide. This process is called gas exchange. In some individuals, such as those with chronic obstructive ...

YORBA LINDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orange County, California based MediPines Corporation, a global market leader in the development of gas exchange monitoring technology, has announced full ...

We know ozone is bad for our lungs – the increased risk of developing diseases such as asthma was one of the reasons people wore face masks during January’s record-breaking smog in China. But exactly ...