Your body has natural defenses that protect against lung and respiratory health threats. Mucus, specialized immune cells, and ...

With the World Health Organization estimating that over 20 million people died from the coronavirus pandemic, despite ...

Cilia are small hairs which beat to push the mucus back up the trachea so it can be swallowed and destroyed in the stomach. Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung.

Half of Austria is sick in bed, many are plagued by colds, coughs and swollen mucous membranes. A cold is naturally ...

Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent channels lined with thousands of living cells and pumped with liquid containing ...

If you smoke and want to quit, today’s the day to do it. Don’t fret if you didn’t know today is the Great American Smokeout and you’ve already had a few cigarettes. Anytime ...

It develops when hair-like fibers called cilia disappear from the bronchial tubes, making it difficult to cough mucus from the lungs. There isn’t a cure for chronic bronchitis. To receive a ...

The airways, the network of tubes that pipes air into the lungs, deploy several defenses against bacteria. The liquid that coats the lining of the airways teems with microbe-fighting molecules and ...

Published in Nature Communications, the study describes how two key proteins allow glial cells to actively monitor the hair-like cilia that extend out of nematode dendrites, so that the glial ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...