Scientists in Japan are exploring a novel way to deliver oxygen through the gut. This method, called enteral ventilation, ...

What happens when people unknowingly eat, drink or inhale nearly invisible pieces of plastic? Although it's unclear what impact this really has on humans, researchers have now taken a step toward ...

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of ...

Kids won’t need beakers and microscopes for these biology experiments—they just need themselves! Each of these five experiments lets children discover how a human body system works. And by doing these ...

Researchers have discovered immune cells resident in the lungs that persist long after a bout of flu. Experiments with mice have shown that these helper cells improve the immune response to ...

The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they'll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set. It's a little-known twist of ...

As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones—such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it ...

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system handled the procedure.