For people who need a lung transplant, the wait is often prolonged by the frustrating fact that most donor organs have to be discarded: Only 20% of donated lungs meet medical criteria for ...

Nanomaterials, the current darlings of industry, are showing up in products ranging from cosmetics to electronics. However, new animal studies indicate that inhaling these microscopic spheres and ...

Dr. James Stein and Dr. Tim Baker with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine were granted $5.7 million dollars from the National Institute of Health to fund their new study, Vape Check, in ...

Human lung that failed on EVLP (left) and then recovered on cross-circulation (right). Ahmed Hozain and John O'Neill/Co Swine may breathe new life into transplant waitlists, scientists have found.

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or “breathing lung” technology, boosts long-term survival for transplant patients. This ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to ...

Damaged human lungs could be rejuvenated to allow for transplant into people if the organs were hooked up to a pig’s circulatory system. Matthew Bacchetta at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, ...

REFLECTION on the functional significance of the valves in the veins and in the heart led Colombo and Cesalpino to postulate a circulatory system in place of the long-accepted tidal flow of blood from ...