The disease is spread by breathing in water vapor containing Legionella bacteria, which are known to grow in cooling towers, ...

New measurements of fine microplastic particles suspended in the air in homes and cars suggest that humans may be inhaling far greater amounts of lung-penetrating microplastics than previously thought ...

Humans are likely inhaling far greater amounts of lung-penetrating microplastics than previously assumed, scientists are ...

Thousands of microscopic plastics in the air of homes, offices and cars may be endangering our health, according to a new study.

Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number after being infected ...

The research team led by Senior Researchers Yoonhee Lee from the Division of Biomedical Technology and Gyogwon Koo from the ...

MGH study shows B cell therapy may ease ARDS by reducing lung damage, improving oxygenation, and restoring immune balance in preclinical models.

Systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection (LND) is “unnecessary” for patients with ground glass opacity (GGO)-dominant invasive lung adenocarcinoma and low risk of nodal involvement, according to ...

A groundbreaking UCSF study challenges the long-held belief that blood is solely produced in bone marrow. Researchers discovered that lungs contain active blood-forming stem cells, capable of ...

Many lung cancers in nonsmokers have no known cause and are discovered only by chance.

Exposure to a common fungal molecule can reprogram immune cells in the lungs, causing them to overreact to infection-like signals and worsen lung damage, according to new research. The study ...

AstraZeneca is in advanced talks with Summit Therapeutics over a potential $15 billion deal for the lung cancer drug ivonescimab.