Tag: Lungs

  • Nation & World

    Designing a way to make oxygen injectable

    Porous liquids hold promise as bridge therapy, game-changer for artificial blood substitutes, preserving organs for transplant.

    5 minutes
    Jarad Mason.
  • Nation & World

    Looking at lunglessness

    A recent study shows that a gene that produces surfactant protein c — a key protein for lung function — is expressed in the skin and mouths of lungless salamanders, suggesting it also plays an important role for cutaneous respiration.

    6 minutes
    Desmognathus fuscus. That is one of the lungless salamanders featured in the study
  • Nation & World

    Tracking nanoparticles

    Using a real-time imaging system, scientists have tracked a group of near-infrared fluorescent nanoparticles from the airspaces of the lungs into the body and out again, providing a description of the characteristics and behavior of the particles that could be used in developing therapeutic agents to treat pulmonary disease.

    4 minutes