It's one of medicine's biggest mysteries — why sometimes our immune system attacks our own bodies. Autoimmune diseases affect as many as 50 million Americans and millions more worldwide.

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Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

Surgeons in the United States perform nearly 600,000 coronary artery stent procedures and bypass surgeries every year.

D printed blood vessels on glass that mimic blood vessel anatomy and the fluid dynamics of blood flow could be an invaluable ...

A new 3D printing technique is generating anatomically accurate replicas of blood vessels in just two hours. The device so ...

Hypertension harms brain vessels, neurons, and white matter long before blood pressure rises, revealing why it sharply ...

Researchers have recreated a miniature human bone marrow system that mirrors the real structure found inside our bones. The ...

Every year, 12 million people worldwide suffer a stroke; many die or are permanently impaired. Currently, drugs are ...