Mechanical engineers have developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human airways to better detect infection, airway obstruction, or the severity of diseases ...

Your lungs naturally cleanse themselves with mucus and cilia. Supporting this process involves avoiding irritants and incorporating practices like controlled coughing, steam therapy, and ...

Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a team of researchers that has developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human airways ...

If you could wander inside your own lungs from a microscopic vantage point, it would seem like a horror-fantasy universe straight out of Guillermo del Toro or H. P. Lovecraft. “There is a ‘lung ...

When you're sick you'll often produce more phlegm, and might notice it's thicker or a different color: white, green, yellow or maybe even brown. We all produce mucus, even when healthy. Mucus is a ...

Not since the 1980s and the rise in the use of cocaine has the nose been such an important public health organ. It has been the way COVID-19 gets into our bodies and the site of much poking and ...

David King does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Eustachian tube dysfunction often determines whether a routine ear infection clears quickly or develops into a persistent condition. This study reveals that the mitochondrial enzyme SIRT3 plays a ...

Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures to generate food-carrying conveyer belts in the water running across their surface. Corals that form reefs consist of ...