The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

and the body will do the rest.” Scientists first reported growing artificial human blood vessels in 1986. Niklason implanted ...

“Nanoscale plastics can breach the blood-brain barrier, [but] how [microplastics] cause brain functional irregularities ...

Inside you, there is an amazing network of blood vessels, the tubes that carry blood all around your body. Every part of the body needs oxygen, food and water. The blood vessels are a bit like ...

“Being able to build human blood vessels as organoids from stem cells is a game changer ... “Every single organ in our body is linked with the circulatory system [so] this could potentially allow ...

And through those blood vessels ... human could lose 65% of their liver and ultimately be no worse for wear, since it would grow back over just a few months! So when you think about it, your body ...

Since then, they've focused on engineering blood vessels that better mimic those in the human body to study more complex diseases. "Historically, endothelial cells lining blood vessels have been ...