Lungs Don't Just Help Us Breathe — They Produce Blood, Too

Kim Bussing
2017-04-21T07:09:48-07:00

In your biology class, you may have learned that lungs help us breathe while bone marrow, found in flat bones such as the hip bone, produces red and white blood cells through a process called hematopoiesis Now, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers have discovered that in addition to being a crucial part of our respiratory system, lungs also play a major role in the production and storage of blood cells.