Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number after being infected ...

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.

Image Credit: The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) By combining data from nearly 40 studies, researchers created the first integrated single-cell atlas of the lung, revealing rare cell types and ...

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 ...

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 ...