Smoking severely damages the lungs, leading to diseases like COPD and lung cancer, while also impairing lung development and ...

A West Virginia woman who received a double lung transplant met and fell in love with her late donor's brother.

A West Virginia woman has married the brother of her lung donor in a full circle moment. Jennifer and Travis Ellis tied the ...

Being an organ donor is such a selfless, beautiful act. For one woman in Virginia, her late organ donor didn’t just give her ...

It entraps bacteria, viruses, dust and pollen to protect the lungs, and the mucus is moved up and out of the airways by the beating of tiny hair-like projections called cilia. But what happens ...

However, the pair grew closer, and Travis moved to West Virginia and proposed in July 2023. They got married on Sept. 28, ...

Jennifer was born with Situs Inversus, a condition where her organs are flipped over, which later developed into a chronic illness called primary ciliary dyskinesia. The condition can cause lung ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Cilia drive fluid flow in development and physiology, but this requires that all cilia in a tissue orient the same way. Earlier studies indicated that both planar cell polarity (PCP) signalling ...

By showing a crucial role for mucin sialylation on mucus properties and transport, the study identified a possible therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis and potentially other ...

Your body has natural defenses that protect against lung and respiratory health threats. Mucus, specialized immune cells, and cilia help your lungs detox (self-cleanse). The inner lining of your ...

A double lung donation has changed the life of a patient at the Cleveland Clinic in more ways than one, not only saving her ...