Human bodies are designed to move in order to circulate blood and nutrients to every cell. Staying active and on the move is crucial to our health for a lot of reasons. But it's especially important ...

For nine months, you were enveloped in the warm, comfortable world of your mother's womb. Your every need was taken care of. The placenta supplied you with oxygen from your mother's blood, so your own ...

The reality of terminal lung disease is that there are more patients badly needing a lung transplant than there are donors available. The reason behind this is not just tied to a low number of donors, ...

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 ...

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.