Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...

Molecular communications in the bloodstream is a promising area of research, since the bloodstream has the ability to ...

Unexpectedly, the study revealed that the fossilization environment had very little effect on the preservation of the ...

If insulin can’t get out of blood vessels, it can’t act in its target tissues. “Endothelial cells are full of insulin ...

Adrenomedullin disrupts insulin signaling in blood vessels, leading to systemic insulin resistance in obesity-associated type ...

To create 3D-printed blood vessels. This new technique could help create tissue ... limiting their usefulness for tissue engineering. ESCAPE overcame this limitation using gallium-based moulds; the ...

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to immune-boosting white cells. This vital function is often disrupted in ...

It started as a respiratory illness – or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was so much more. "Since the beginning, the virus showed a ...

Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering ... up the walls of blood vessels; and mesenchymal cells, which build and maintain the connective tissue of the marrow ...

The more time that elapses before a stroke is diagnosed and treated, the more brain tissue is irreparably ... you need to open the blocked blood vessel with clot-busting drugs or physically ...

A new advance in tissue engineering could help. In December, the Food and Drug Administration approved a bioengineered blood vessel to treat vascular trauma. Made by North Carolina–based biotech ...