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 ...

The symptoms, treatments, and timelines of having the disease vary depending ... the virus invades lung cells. Specifically, this can damage the cilia, the hairlike projections that move around ...

Bronchial tubes connect your lungs to airways and are lined with little hairs called cilia that move in wave ... Asthma isn’t just one disease affecting lung function. Asthma, which causes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of ... been used to test drugs’ impact on organs and to replicate diseases like asthma. The next frontier: custom chips that imitate a ...