The nose is the initial site of viral infection, replication, and transmission in the human body.
Nasally inhaled vaccines may act as a promising alternative for COVID‐19 management in …

Mucus is a viscoelastic material with non-linear rheological properties such as yield stress of
the order of a few hundreds of millipascals to a few tens of pascals, due to a complex …

Biological cilia, hairlike organelles on cell surfaces, often exhibit collective wavelike motion
known as metachrony, which helps generating fluid flow. Inspired by nature, researchers …

Cystic fibrosis (CF) and Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) are both rare chronic diseases,
inherited disorders associated with multiple complications, namely respiratory …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with high morbidity and
mortality globally. Studies show that airway mucus hypersecretion strongly compromises …

The respiratory tract of larger animals is cleared by sweeping bundled strands along the
airway surface. These bundled strands can be millimetric in length and consist of MUC5B …

Mucus layers (McLs) are on the front line of the human defense system that protect us from
foreign abiotic/biotic particles (eg, airborne virus SARS-CoV-2) and lubricates our organs …

Airway mucus dysfunction and impaired immunological defenses are hallmarks of several
lung diseases, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary …

We present numerical and analytical predictions of mucociliary clearance based on the
continuum description of a viscoelastic mucus film, where momentum transfer from the …

Hydrodynamics of slender flexible filaments plays an important role in biology, human
physiology, locomotion of organisms, as well as biomedical devices. It is, therefore …