Few places on Earth — or in our bodies — seem to be free of microplastics. What recent research makes clear so far is that microplastics are ubiquitous, that these particles enter peoples’ bodies ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Microplastic pollution has been discovered lodged deep in the lungs of living people ...

Your Blood Could Be Filled With Microplastics How and Why Microplastics Invade Our Lives Dangerous PFAS Chemicals Found in Food Packaging “The threat posed by these microfibers is almost invisible in ...

UCLA researchers have successfully grown miniature lungs from stem cells — complete with their own functioning blood vessel networks. The groundbreaking work, detailed in Cell, marks the first time ...

In the last decade we've seen studies unearth plastic pollution in some unexpected places, from the Arctic, to the Antarctic, and the world's tallest mountain in between. More recently, we've seen ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells ...

The largest and most comprehensive cell map of the human lung has been completed. The Human Lung Cell Atlas reveals the great diversity of cell types in the lung and shows key differences between ...

A newly discovered cell was found hiding in the passageways of the human lungs, according to Live Science. And this cell may be crucial to the functionality of the respiratory system. According to a ...