As swimming season heats up, you might notice your fingers wrinkle after spending time in the water—turns out, those wrinkles ...

Learn more about how one student's question inspired the study that proves our fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every time ...

It’s caused by blood leaking out of the tiny vessels called capillaries. The blood pools under the skin and leave a residue of hemoglobin that settles in the tissue there. Hemoglobin contains ...

In IBD, the barrier formed by the epithelial cells that line the gut is impaired, enabling microorganisms and the molecules that they produce to enter gut tissue and blood vessels. Agarwal and co ...

Taiwan is strengthening its deterrence against the PLA through an asymmetric arsenal that includes fast mine-laying vessels and domestically developed ... which will join four other Min Jiang-class ...

“Jugular vein” has become one of the most-Googled words in India, Google Trends showed. They are blood vessels in the neck that carry deoxygenated blood from the head and neck back to the heart. Here ...

Most popped blood vessels in the eye heal on their own within a couple of weeks. However, there are some situations when you may want to seek medical care. A popped blood vessel in the eye is a ...

In new research, scientists found that blocked blood vessels contain 50 times more minuscule bits of plastic compared to healthy arteries. The highest amounts of micronanoplastics were found in ...

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