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 ...

RIKEN researchers have imitated the formation of organs in the lab by "hacking" certain signaling pathways that guide the development of connective tissues in the embryo, which support the formation ...

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 ...

For nine months, you were enveloped in the warm, comfortable world of your mother's womb. Your every need was taken care of. The placenta supplied you with oxygen from your mother's blood, so your own ...

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 ...

A puzzle for millennia, the movement of blood through the body was solved by an English physician in the 17th century, paving the way for modern medical technologies. What do chemotherapy, dialysis, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There's perhaps no element of the body that captures our imagination more than the heart. We link it ...