Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models replicated vessels like straight, simple roads. To better capture the complex ...

However, there has been a major obstacle: Such mini-organs are incomplete without blood vessels. To facilitate systematic studies and ensure meaningful comparisons with living organisms ...

The microvasculature, the body’s network of tiny blood vessels, is critical for delivering oxygen and nutrients to tissues. Damage to these vessels can contribute to life-threatening conditions ...

An anti-inflammatory diet can counteract chronic low-grade inflammation by modulating immune responses, gut health, and key ...

Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries (vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of your body). Blood pressure is measured in two numbers.

Researchers at UZH have now shown for the first time that intestinal bacteria and their metabolites can accelerate the aging of blood vessels and trigger cardiovascular disease. The human body ...

That’s because the folds follow the paths of blood vessels below the skin’s surface, which generally stay in place. Many people think that fingers and toes wrinkle when wet because the skin ...

Blood vessels are the highways in the body, bringing nutrients and oxygen to organs, including the muscles. But they also contribute to essential organ function and health.

It looks like your eye is bleeding—but is it actually an emergency? A broken blood vessel in the eye can be startling, but it is not always dangerous. Emergency physician Jeffrey Druck, MD, explains ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is when your blood travels through blood vessels with more force than is considered healthy. When blood pressure is high, it can damage artery and blood ...

Unlike living tissue in the body, organoids lack a blood vessel system that delivers oxygen and nutrients to every cell. Beyond about 3 millimeters in diameter, an organoid can no longer sustain ...