Sighing is often seen as a sign of emotion, but science suggests it plays a deeper role in how our bodies work.

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Japanese and US researchers have developed a groundbreaking treatment for people who can’t breathe through their lungs — by ...

Technique may enable doctors to rescue patients whose airways are blocked by injury or inflammation or whose lung function is ...

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An unconventional method of delivering oxygen rectally, known as "enteral ventilation," is advancing through human clinical ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets ...

Scientists have developed a step-by-step blueprint to create advanced human lung models in the lab, which they say will accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs and reduce reliance on ...

Researchers completed the first human trial of enteral ventilation, a process in which oxygen is delivered to the body through the rectum.