At about 27.5cm (11in) long and nearly 15cm (6in) wide, the lungs are your largest organ but together weigh only about two pounds. Adult lungs contain more than 600 million microscopic air sacs ...

It's converted to CO2 and comes out through your lungs-- one more reason to exercise. OK, you can exhale now. Those are just a few facts about a seriously phenomenal pair of organs.

The death of actor and leading man Val Kilmer is a stark reminder of how one of the most common lung infections in the ...

The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and skin are all mentioned. The clip also stresses the importance of a healthy diet and ...

By examining blood samples collected in the late 1990s, researchers calculated the biological age of nine different organs, including the heart, liver, lungs, and brain, and an overall measure for ...

This is true for all organs, but especially for the lung,” Ingber said. To create a clinically relevant ... These cells—even though they're cultured for weeks, under air, in this little device—really ...

For this, they used a strategy they previously described called selective organ targeting (SORT), which ... When Siegwart’s team isolated lung tissue from treated mice and observed it under the ...