Engineers from Texas A University (TAMU) have developed a groundbreaking tiny chip that mimics real human blood vessels, ...

Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models ...

In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a-chip, also referred to as microphysiological systems, are becoming increasingly ...

Miniature organs on a chip could allow us to do scientific studies with great precision, without having to resort to animal testing. The main problem, however, is that artificial tissue needs blood ...

Researchers from Emory University and Georgia Tech developed a smartphone app to screen for anemia using images of a person’s fingernail beds instead of the conventional blood test.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, but following closely behind (affecting an estimated 5 to 10 percent ...

New data on the epidemiology of peripheral artery disease (PAD) are available, and they should be integrated with previous data. We provide an updated, integrated overview of the epidemiology of PAD, ...