Your daily habits impact blood flow more than you realize. Learn how small changes in movement, hydration, and sleep can ...

Scientists have made an important discovery about the relationship between hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and immune response evasion. Their findings show how certain HSCs have regulatory functions ...

Type R capillaries. These are a special, physiologically important group of blood vessels that are essential for maintaining healthy bones throughout adulthood and especially during the aging process.

All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...

And underneath your skin lies a vast network of blood vessels. Spread out, this network of veins, arteries, and capillaries would extend over 100,000 miles. That's long enough to wrap around Earth ...

What am I looking at? This is an image of the blood vessels and pericytes in the spinal cord of a mouse. The blood vessels are shown in purple (1) and the pericytes in green (2). Biology in the ...