Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that you either develop ... It develops when hair-like fibers called cilia disappear from the bronchial tubes, making it difficult ...

Your lungs are among your body's largest—and hardest working—organs. With an average of 17,000 breaths a day, your lungs help you bring in 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich air for delivery to your ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life ...

Officials at the American Cancer Society are making it a goal to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. In an effort to achieve that target, Thursday marks the 36th Great American ...

Until recently, children born with the disease rarely survived ... In addition, fine filaments known as cilia are continually sweeping airway fluid and mucus—along with any bacteria trapped in ...

The findings may have implications for treating diseases caused by defective cilia, such as polycystic kidney disease. Fleshing out the pathway by which glia interact with dendrites was our major ...

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 ...