Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer’s lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County Commissioner for the ...

In normal lungs, the transporter ZIP2 (WT-ZIP2: the bullet train, or "Shinkansen", on the left side of the figure) controls zinc transport and delivers zinc to lung epithelial cells. For this ...

A 40-year-old woman who was once accustomed to frequent travel suddenly found herself struggling to breathe after just a few ...

“Because the new lungs need to fit into a chest cavity that’s a mirror image, we have to make technical modifications in order to do the surgery.” Just reattaching blood vessels created in utero for a ...