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How do the lungs work? - Emma Bryce

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When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body’s cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it? Emma Bryce takes us into the lungs to investigate how they help keep us alive. 

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Emma Bryce
Director
Andrew Zimbelman
Producer
Andrea Sertz Jew
Composer
Dave Feddock
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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