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 ...

Dr. Barnard explains how his research suggests that processed meat may negatively affect not only your heart health, but also your lung function.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concern about microplastics has risen to new heights in recent weeks after researchers confirmed they had been detected in human blood and lungs for the first time. The full health implications of ...

Scientists have developed a step-by-step blueprint to create advanced human lung models in the lab, which they say will accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs and reduce reliance on ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

The human body is a remarkably resilient thing, as many case studies of people surviving without organs tell us ...