When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the ...

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 ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Your heart pumps blood from your head to your toes, provides cells with fresh oxygen, and removes waste products. Located in ...

When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the ...

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 ...