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

Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, and animal models for studying these illnesses and experimental medications are inadequate. Now, ...

Lung diseases kill millions of people around the world each year. Treatment options are limited, and animal models for studying these illnesses and experimental medications are inadequate. Now, ...

In 2020, when COVID-19 was making headlines globally, a company that specialized in producing organoids — tiny, lab-grown organ analogues — of respiratory tissue was launched in Japan. A practicing ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.

Researchers at the University of Rochester are developing microphysiological systems (MPS)— small chips with ultrathin membranes supporting 3D networks of human cells, also known as “tissue chips”—to ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...