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

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

Novel artificial lungs could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most diagnosed cancer in both men and women in the United States. After increasing for decades, lung cancer rates are decreasing ...

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, ...

How Much Damage Can One Cigarette Even Do? Whether it's cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or vaping, inhaling smoke or vapor takes a serious toll on your lungs, and it can happen faster than you think.

A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...