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 ...

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 ...

Lipid membranes, which form the outer layer of cells, can be engineered to influence cellular functions. For example, ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel extracorporeal blood purification technology that captures and ...

Manufacturing CAR T cells in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming. An in vivo approach could get the powerful ...

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that ...

It’s World Dracula Day – and we’ve come to slay with 15 amazing facts about blood including 9,000 miles of blood vessels in ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a series of genetic blood abnormalities. Due to hemoglobin damage, your red blood cells (RBCs) lose their adaptable donut shape and adopt a "C" shape. These cells become ...

Scientists have caught the intricate dance of cardiac cells coming together to build a heart, in a mesmerizing new timelapse taken during the development of a mouse embryo. The images were captured ...

Learn about acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), its sneaky symptoms, aggressive nature, and how bone marrow produces defective ...

Proteins that recognize LDL cholesterol in the blood bound to some of Alnylam’s nanoparticles and carried them to LDL receptors on liver cells ... similar in structure, were discovered while ...