Inspired by soap bubbles, scientists reproduce alveolar movement in artificial lung model

Almost everyone has blown a soap bubble done a straw astatine slightest once. Inspired by this bladed soap bubble film, an artificial lung that breathes similar a existent lung has been developed. A probe squad led by Professor Sungjune Jung of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering astatine POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has developed an ultrathin artificial lung that reproduces the question of the alveoli, the aerial sacs wrong the lungs, portion making it imaginable to observe the responses of lung cells.