The biomechanics of how cancer cells escape from the bloodstream to invade other organs has been described for the first time by researchers from UCL, MIT and their collaborators. Neuroscientists have ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From skin to guns to customizable phone covers to mini-robots, the capacities of 3D printing are ...

The metabolic activity of any tissue is limited by its blood supply; the more active any organ, the more blood it needs and the more extensive its vascularization. The changes in metabolic activity ...

The pharmaceutical drug development and approval process is a multi-step undertaking that requires a plethora of testing before reaching the market. Even then, humans respond differently to drugs ...

Human bodies are designed to move in order to circulate blood and nutrients to every cell. Staying active and on the move is crucial to our health for a lot of reasons. But it's especially important ...

All the blood vessels in the human body lined up end-to-end would stretch about 100,000 kilometers. That's about two and a half times the earth's circumference. The arteries carry oxygenated blood ...

Water and nutrients are important to keep living things alive and healthy. Animals, including humans, get these from what they eat and drink, but how do the water and nutrients get transported around ...

It has been proven that Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) in the air enters the human body by diffusion into the blood, causing an inflammatory response all over the body and thickening blood vessels, ...