Alveoli are the basic functional units of the human respiratory system, acting as tiny air sacs that exchange gases. Air inhaled through the mouth and nose flows into the lungs through the branched ...

To track the course of inhaled microplastics and their even smaller counterparts, nanoplastics, the study authors constructed a detailed computer model of the human respiratory system from the nose to ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VirTus Respiratory Research Ltd, a leading respiratory-focused contract research organisation (CRO), today announced that results from their human rhinovirus challenge model ...

Hesperos, Inc. (Hesperos), a global leader focused on improving preclinical drug development, food, cosmetic, and chemical testing with its Human-on-a-Chip® (HoaC) single- and multi-organ systems ...

Xenografts from genetically modified pigs have become one of the most promising solutions to the dearth of human organs available for transplantation. The challenge in this model has been hyperacute ...