Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Microplastics are no longer just an environmental concern. Doctors are now finding them in human blood and even arterial ...

As we age, our immune system quietly loses its edge, and scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why. A protein called platelet factor 4 naturally declines over time, allowing blood stem cells ...

With each heartbeat, blood courses through your body. Some traverse arteries from the lungs back to the heart, and some navigate through capillaries in the thinnest layers of your eyelid, almost ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

Share on Pinterest Pictured: Director of the Marine Institute of Plymouth Prof. Richard Thompson analyses nurdles and other micro-plastics in a laboratory at the University of Plymouth, south western ...

The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully connected a functioning liver from a genetically modified pig to a human body.* In a step toward testing the procedure in living people, a team at the ...