Cells called alveolar myofibroblasts, which have a central role in the development of the lung after birth, receive an orchestrated input from a range of different signaling pathways.

Air keeps moving through your airways until it reaches tiny balloon-like air sacs in your lungs called alveoli. From there, the oxygen moves into your blood. Healthy lungs carry oxygen from the ...

Christopher Chen and his team at Boston University and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have invented a new approach to solve this complex problem called ESCAPE (engineered sacrificial ...

It happens when an infection causes air sacs in your lungs (the alveoli) and tubes in your airways that connect to them (bronchioles) to fill with fluid or pus. That can make it hard for you to ...

Emphysema is a chronic lung disease that occurs when the air sacs in the lungs (called the alveoli) can no longer inflate and deflate to pump air in and out of the lungs as they should.

AMs live on the walls of our alveoli, the microscopic sacs in our lungs which allow gases to pass from the air into our bloodstream. As the 'crossroads' between our internal organs and the outside ...

"It's been recently discovered that the AT2 receptor is found in the lung's alveoli, the lung's air sacs, and it seems to be central to the proper functioning of the alveoli," explains Hallberg.