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The ancient ancestors of the human-sized coelacanth breathed with lungs, according to a new study. The modern coelacanth, like most fish, uses gills to get oxygen from the water, but its dinosaur-age ancestors also had a...

Across the Himalayas, rural farmers and villagers rely on open, wood-fuelled fires inside their homes to cook their meals. The sheer amount of smoke created in these unventilated homes makes thousands of people ill every...

Having written previously about a synthetic lung on a chip that would provide an alternative to animal testing for toxic substances, this development caught our eye: researchers at Harvard Medical School have now grown lungs...