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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 ...

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For the squeamish or easily offended, the “Body Worlds” exhibits put the “gross” in gross anatomy. For the iron-stomached and medically curious, it’s a fascinating peek into the gears of our complex ...

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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, ...

Engineers report on how a computational technique they developed can quickly produce designs for 3D printing carbon-fiber composite materials with an internal vasculature optimized for active-cooling.