Scientists have discovered that people with COPD have lung cells that contain over three times as much soot-like carbon as ...

Cells taken from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a larger accumulation of ...

It splits into smaller and smaller branches in your lungs. At the end of each branch are tiny air sacs called alveoli. This is where oxygen goes into your blood and carbon dioxide comes out.

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The second part of the study entailed analyzing tissue samples ... The analysis found black carbon particles in the livers and lungs of all 36 fetuses and ...

Fine particulate matter, especially particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), penetrates deep into lung tissue ... produce nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other gases that damage ...

Example SEM and TEM images of the released particles following the rupture ... the actual effects of these biopersistent carbon fragments on lung tissue. Only assumptions of potential health ...

Moreover, in the absence of malignancy, 15% of normal lung tissue samples harbored driver mutations in EGFR and 53% harbored KRAS activating mutations. “The same particles in the air that derive ...

Previous studies had found evidence of “black carbon” particles in the ... from the fetuses' placenta, lungs, liver and brain. “We found that every single tissue section and every single ...

Experts found that "black carbon ... also analysed tissue samples from 36 foetuses which had been aborted. The research team found the presence of soot particles in the livers, lungs and brains ...

The researchers used samples of lung tissue from surgery for suspected ... When the researchers exposed macrophages to carbon particles in the lab, they saw the cells become much larger and ...