D printed lung tissue used to study effects of toxic vapors - accurately representing the reaction of real lung tissue inside ...

The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the ...

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 ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

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

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

And if we use senolytics, we see that the inflammation goes away and the regenerative capacity of the surrounding tissue is restored — well, at least if you’re a mouse.” Based on dozens of preclinical ...

By Bobby Bascomb A new study has found a dramatic increase in levels of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) in human brains ...

Other factors, such as weight control or physical activity, have been evaluated by the IARC Handbooks for their preventive effects. The main figure shows, for each organ or group of organs in the ...