In addition, male adults tend to have heavier lungs than female adults, according to Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body (Bartleby, 2000). Interestingly, lungs weigh only 1.4 ounces (40 g) at birth.

A groundbreaking UCSF study challenges the long-held belief that blood is solely produced in bone marrow. Researchers discovered that lungs contain active blood-forming stem cells, capable of ...

Whether it's our bloodstream, brain, or lungs, microscopic fragments of plastic seem to turn up every time scientists scour a new corner of the human body. The male reproductive organs are no ...

UCLA researchers have successfully grown miniature lungs from stem cells — complete with their own functioning blood vessel networks. The groundbreaking work, detailed in Cell, marks the first time ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The lung is one of the tissues most sensitive to radiation in the human body. People exposed to high radiation doses following nuclear incidents develop radiation-induced lung injury (RILI), which ...