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Yet after millions of years, tens of thousands of years of human problem-solving ... First, something triggers the diaphragm—the sheet of muscle at the base of your lungs—to contract.

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Universiti Malaya's Tan Sri Lim Wee Chai Medical Museum provides a starkly educational view of human anatomy and ...

Your diaphragm is the muscle that controls your breathing ... One cubic millimeter of lung tissue contains around 170 alveoli. Human lungs have a surface area of roughly 70 square meters. Though the ...

An invisible intruder puts the delicate balance in our lungs to the test: the mold Aspergillus fumigatus, harmless in nature, ...

After decades of hype and setbacks, scientists have made impressive progress into tricking stem cells into repairing organs.

A new drug delivery system developed by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine ...