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

Your circulatory system contains three blood vessel types: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood from the heart, unlike veins, which carry blood to the heart. According to the ...

Veins are a type of blood vessel that return deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart. These are different from your arteries, which deliver oxygenated blood from your heart to the rest ...

Miniature organs on a chip could allow us to do scientific studies with great precision, without having to resort to animal testing. The main problem, however, is that artificial tissue needs blood ...

Developing drugs that stop blood vessel growth in cancer — causing tumors to shrink — is a hot area in pharmaceuticals. Still, researchers and clinicians don’t know as much as they would like about ...

Vasodilation refers to a widening of the blood vessels within the body. This occurs when the smooth muscles in the arteries and major veins relax. Vasodilation occurs naturally in response to low ...

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

Vasculitis is a group of diseases, also known as angiitis, that damage blood vessels by causing inflammation. It can affect any blood vessel anywhere in the body. Vasculitis means inflammation of the ...

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