Sentences with phrase «human lung small»

Now a team at Harvard has designed a device that smokes cigarettes and sends the smoke through a human lung small airway - on - a-chip to examine just how the habit damages health.

Building on that project, the researchers have now designed a machine that smokes cigarettes in a very human - like manner, and hooked it up to organs - on - chips lined by human lung small airway cells so the smoke interacts with these cells in a realistic way.

The public disclosure of this expanded collaboration coincides with the publication in the peer reviewed journal Nature Methods of data showing new capabilities of the Lung - Chip technology to achieve accurate modeling of the human lung small airways.

Not exact matches

By the 1990s, the Owens Lake playa was the largest producer in North America of PM10 atmospheric dust — particulate matter small enough to enter human lungs.

The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.

By the 1930s, the Owens Lake playa was the largest source in North America of PM10: particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less, small enough to readily enter human lungs.

One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small - cell lung cancer; another reports progress on culturing hormone - secreting organoids from human gut tissue.

Influenza is thought to spread among humans three ways — touch; coughing and sneezing, which launches droplets containing virus from the lungs onto surfaces; and aerosols, smaller droplets suspended in the air that could be inhaled (SN: 6/29/13, p. 9).

The researchers grafted breast or lung tumors in mice, allowed the tumors to grow to small size and removed these tumors surgically — essentially mimicking the situation in a human tumor patient in which the tumor is surgically removed as soon as possible after diagnosis.

Management of chemotherapy - related anaemia with low - dose recombinant human erythropoietin in patients with small cell lung cancer.

To identify the JSRV receptor in lung cells, Miller developed a system using cultured hamster cells that contain small pieces of human DNA.

These specks of dust are about 30 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, so they can be inhaled deep into the lungs.

Sulfur dioxide (SO2): Produced when the sulfur in coal reacts with oxygen, SO2 combines with other molecules in the atmosphere to form small, acidic particulates that can penetrate human lungs.

«The small and somehow disputable risk of lung cancer development in relation to SHS exposure exemplifies the intricacy of establishing human cancer etiology when omnipresent carcinogens are concerned.