The Curious Crew gets pumped exploring the circulatory system! The Curious Crew gets pumped exploring the circulatory system! Dr. Rob uses balloon valves and tennis balls to explain how the heart ...

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 ...

The metabolic activity of any tissue is limited by its blood supply; the more active any organ, the more blood it needs and the more extensive its vascularization. The changes in metabolic activity ...

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 ...

Your circulatory system contains three blood vessel types: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood from the heart, unlike veins, which carry blood to the heart. According to the ...

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, ...

Engineers report on how a computational technique they developed can quickly produce designs for 3D printing carbon-fiber composite materials with an internal vasculature optimized for active-cooling.