RIKEN researchers have imitated the formation of organs in the lab by "hacking" certain signaling pathways that guide the development of connective tissues in the embryo, which support the formation ...

For people who need a lung transplant, the wait is often prolonged by the frustrating fact that most donor organs have to be discarded: Only 20% of donated lungs meet medical criteria for ...

For nine months, you were enveloped in the warm, comfortable world of your mother's womb. Your every need was taken care of. The placenta supplied you with oxygen from your mother's blood, so your own ...

Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...

A puzzle for millennia, the movement of blood through the body was solved by an English physician in the 17th century, paving the way for modern medical technologies. What do chemotherapy, dialysis, ...

Water and nutrients are important to keep living things alive and healthy. Animals, including humans, get these from what they eat and drink, but how do the water and nutrients get transported around ...

Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. Researchers compiled proxy data, ...