At about 27.5cm (11in) long and nearly 15cm (6in) wide, the lungs are your largest organ but together weigh only about two pounds. Adult lungs contain more than 600 million microscopic air sacs ...

It's converted to CO2 and comes out through your lungs-- one more reason to exercise. OK, you can exhale now. Those are just a few facts about a seriously phenomenal pair of organs.

Successful transplants have increased in Maine and across the nation over the past five years as awareness grows and the ...

The machine, nicknamed "lungs in a box", mimics the human body and surgeon Marius ... instead of being discarded. The organs are kept at body temperature, for up to six hours.

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...

Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung ...