COPD has a large economic impact on the healthcare system and a destructive impact on the lives of patients and their ...

There can be a range of reasons for a persistent cough. But most chronic coughs are caused by three conditions.

This is because the lung’s cilia – tiny hair-like structures that move mucus, debris and germs – no longer work to clear the lungs.

Mice lacking let-7 in lung cells spontaneously develop lung injury, demonstrating that the tumor suppressor microRNA serves as a braking mechanism against the formation of profibrotic cells following ...

New research from the University of Osaka has uncovered how air pollution impairs the lungs' self-cleaning system by damaging cilia on airway cells. The study also identifies a potential treatment ...

Tar is responsible for the blackening of the lungs from smoking. It contains most of the cancer-causing chemicals in cigarette smoke and affects the cilia in your lungs, little hairs that sweep ...

The team at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee was led by Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and their work is detailed in PNAS. In their paper, the researchers ...

The cilia kept this mucus moving up & out of the lungs all the time. Significant for human beings who live in dusty cities, especially for those who work in dusty factories, mills or mines, were ...

That's because nicotine paralyzes cilia, tiny hairs that line your lungs. Cilia normally help move mucus out of your lungs, so if they can't do their job, the mucus will build up and get thicker.

Smoking also paralyzes and damages the cilia, the small hair-like structures in the airways. The cilia help push foreign material and mucus out of the lungs.

In PCD and Kartagener syndrome, these cilia don’t move or they don’t move very well, which causes ongoing lung, sinus, and ear problems. Not all people with PCD have reversed organs, so ...

Anthrobots grow into distinct shapes and cilia distribution on their surface that enable them to move in different patterns. Movement patterns may be harnessed for different purposes, such as ...