Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models ...

In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a-chip, also referred to as microphysiological systems, are becoming increasingly ...

Engineers from Texas A&M University (TAMU) have developed a groundbreaking tiny chip that mimics real human blood vessels, ...

Miniature organs on a chip could allow us to do scientific studies with great precision, without having to resort to animal testing. The main problem, however, is that artificial tissue needs blood ...

Researchers have established a method to create a network of perfusable blood vessels in organs-on-chips, enabling better ...

Nearly half of those are due to injured blood vessels cutting ... have an available blood vessel. But they’re not ideal. “Every time you put a foreign body in the human body, the chance ...

Individual cells in your body are constantly ... of rice, have blood vessels and all the cell types that are usually found in the human heart. They even beat like the real thing.

Each 2.54 square centimetre (a square inch) of human skin has six metres (20ft) of blood vessels. Veins hold about 65 per cent of the body's blood and have one-way valves tohelp blood move.

A dysfunction in muscle blood vessels could be to blame for the weak muscles and weight loss that most cancer patients ...

The aging of the innermost cell layer of blood vessels leads to cardiovascular diseases. Researchers at UZH have now shown ...