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The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics range from mountain peaks to brain cells, raising urgent questions regarding their impact on human health.

By creating artificial aging in mice, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have been able to track the formation of ...

A new study shows that cells in atherosclerotic blood vessels grow in a way that resembles tumor development. This finding ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children's and colleagues based in Japan report achieving a major step forward in organoid ...

Blood vessels grown in the lab in just five days could quickly prevent the tissue damage that can occur after an accident ...

Cardiovascular disease causes the most deaths worldwide, and as we age, we are at higher risk of cardiovascular problems. As the inner lining of blood vessels, or endothelium ages, cardiovascular ...

The most common reason to have those broken blood vessels is usually just an increase in pressure that occurs within your eye. So, for example, coughing can be one of the things that causes you to ...

For example, excessive aggregation of red blood cells in people with severe COVID-19 has been shown to damage the endothelial glycocalyx 6 — a layer rich in proteins and sugars that lines the ...

(For example, one study found that women age 40 49 who smoke had over eight times the heart disease risk of non-smokers, a risk that actually fell to "only" ~3 times higher by age 70 79.) ...

Ideally such blood vessels have to be created directly within special materials called hydrogels. Hydrogels provide structural support for living cells, while being permeable similarly to natural ...