Micro and nanoplastics, tiny pieces of plastic scattered throughout the environment, have been increasingly found to be able to enter the body, raising questions about where they end up and how they ...

Liver organoids with proper blood vessel networks have been successfully produced, as reported by researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. This ...

The following text is an AI-generated, expert-checked summary of a key research study cited in a feature article from Scientific American’s May 2023 issue: Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create ...

Surgeons in the United States perform nearly 600,000 coronary artery stent procedures and bypass surgeries every year.

Research led by scientists at St George's, University of London has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that an ...

A person's blood type may be linked to their risk of having an early stroke, according to a new meta-analysis. The meta-analysis included all available data from genetic studies focusing on ischemic ...

A new study shows that hypertension quietly disrupts brain cells and blood-vessel integrity well before blood pressure spikes. Hypertension can begin harming blood vessels, brain cells and white ...

A person’s blood type may be linked to their risk of having an early stroke, according to a new meta-analysis led by University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers. Findings were ...