Scientists in the U.S. have created a tiny, innovative chip that mimics real human blood vessel structures to transform how medicine understands, diagnoses, and treats cardiovascular conditions. The ...

The following text is an AI-generated, expert-checked summary of a key research study cited in a feature article from Scientific American’s May 2023 issue: Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create ...

A new technique to repair damaged blood vessels promises to bring new hope to diabetics 1. Many diabetes patients end up with damaged blood vessels in their limbs leading to traumatic limb amputations ...

A Durham company is saving lives in Ukraine in an unusual way. They're producing blood vessels - in a lab - that are helping trauma patients in war zone hospitals. From the outside, the Humacyte ...

The increased pulsation of arteries in the brain is closely linked to cognitive impairment, and some scientists think it ...

As age increases, the pancreas changes, which increases the risk of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, digestive ...

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought “holy grail” of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically ...

Damage to blood vessels that leaves them blocked or otherwise impeded can leave no option other than surgical replacement. Traditionally, this can involve vessels from a donor or harvested from ...

Scientists at the University of North Texas report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown replicas of human organs.

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Scientists have discovered a method to induce human endothelial cells from a small biopsy sample to multiply in the ...