Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models replicated vessels like straight, simple roads. To better capture the complex ...

Blood flows around the body through a complex network of vessels, which must constantly adapt to changing needs. The balance ...

Researchers have developed a new platform that can replicate different types of blood vessel structures. Blood vessels are less like straight pipes and more like a crowded city road map, with turns, ...

Over 100,000 individuals in the United States are currently in need of organ transplants. The demand for organs, such as hearts, kidneys, and livers, far exceeds the available supply and people ...

Artist's representation of the 'living blood vessel'. Credit: Ziyu Wang, Ella Maru Studio An international consortium of researchers led by the University of Sydney, has developed technology to enable ...

Innovative technology that creates ultra-thin layers of human cells in tube-like structures could spur development of lifelike blood vessels and intestines in the lab. Innovative technology that ...

A landmark trilogy of scientific studies, published today on the preprints.org server, has for the first time comprehensively characterised the anomalous intravascular casts (AICs) commonly reported ...

Researchers are using ice as a template for the 3D printing of artificial blood vessels in engineered tissues, which could one day be utilized for artificial organ transplants and drug testing.

How can we investigate the effects of a new drug? How can we better understand the interaction between different organs to grasp the systemic response? In biomedical research, so-called ...