Your lungs are vital for providing your body with fresh oxygen while ridding it of carbon dioxide. This process is called gas exchange. In some individuals, such as those with chronic obstructive ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have collaborated in an effort to create a technique in animal models that allows the abdominal cavity to perform the function of ...

We need to get oxygen from the air into the blood, and we need to remove waste carbon dioxide from the blood into the air. Moving gases like this is called gas exchange. As the blood moves through the ...

Sustained inflation (SI) at birth facilitates establishment of functional residual capacity (FRC) in the preterm lung, but the ideal lung recruitment strategy is unclear. We have compared the effect ...

Respiration is a chemical reaction that happens in all living cells, including plant cells and animal cells. It is the way that energy is released from glucose so that all the other chemical processes ...

We know ozone is bad for our lungs – the increased risk of developing diseases such as asthma was one of the reasons people wore face masks during January’s record-breaking smog in China. But exactly ...

Animals are incredibly adaptable creatures that have developed a variety of survival mechanisms throughout their evolution.