Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory ...

This short film is from the BBC series, Biological processes of the human body. You could create a lung capacity experiment using the filmed demonstration as a template. Measure the different lung ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

The machine, nicknamed "lungs in a box", mimics the human body and surgeon Marius Berman said it could increase the number of transplants by 30%. Daniel Evans-Smith, a 49-year-old event manager ...

A review on the health effects of microplastics has some scientists suspecting the worst. The tiny synthetic particles that ...

Daniel Evans-Smith, 49, received the organs after they were “reconditioned” by a machine mimicking the human body. It keeps donor lungs alive for hours while a nutrient-rich liquid is pumped ...

“Air is at least an equal source of microplastics into the human body than water,” said Chris Carlsten, MD, director of the Centre for Lung Health and professor and head of the Respiratory ...