Richard Bossert's street-level study of the human body's gas exchange process is nothing to sniff at when it comes to patient treatment. You arrive for a difficulty-breathing emergency. The patient is ...

The airflow of a typical human breath travels at less than 2 meters per second. Instead of lamenting its weakness, engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to try to make a material ...

Scientists have confirmed that a new technique allowing humans to absorb oxygen through the intestines is safe, following the first successful human trial. The process, called enteral ventilation, ...