Scientists have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver chemotherapy directly to lung cancer cells. In early testing, these microbots extended the average ...

Colored SEM image of a microrobot made of an algae cell (green) covered with drug-filled nanoparticles (orange) coated with red blood cell membranes. Scale bar: 2 µm. Engineers at the University of ...

Severe infections caused by COVID-19 or influenza may raise the likelihood of developing lung cancer years later, according to new scientific findings that highlight the long-term consequences of ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets ...

Lung cancer is cancer that starts in your lungs. It is the leading cause of cancer death among men and women. Finding lung cancer early before it spreads improves your chances of beating the disease.

Cells taken from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a larger accumulation of soot-like carbon deposits compared to cells taken from people who smoke but do not ...