When you sit quietly for a moment listening to your heart pump blood through your body, do you think about blood vessels as a firehose drenching your organs and brain with red blood cells full of ...

When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the responses in our own bodies. It's become an important intermediary step before ...

Reduced blood flow can cause unpleasant symptoms, such as pain, muscle cramps, numbness, digestive issues and coldness in the hands or feet. In addition to those with poor circulation, athletes and ...

In a new study by the Yale Department of Immunobiology and Yale Cancer Center, researchers report combined liver and growth factor humanization enhances human red blood cell production and survival in ...

Making stem cells from a patient's adult cells -- rather than human embryos -- is one of the holy grails in modern medicine treatments. New research brings us two steps closer. Biomedical engineers ...

Every year, millions of people develop dangerous blood clots in their legs without realizing the life-threatening risk growing within their bodies. These formations, medically known as deep vein ...