Research conducted by the University of Hull and Hull York Medical School shows two of the five microplastic polymer types found in human veins came from food packaging. The first food packaging-based ...

3D-printed blood vessels, which closely mimic the properties of human veins, could transform the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Strong, flexible, gel-like tubes -- created using a novel 3D ...

It sounds like pure science fiction. Remove a healthy human head from a dying body, connect it to a different healthy body, and bring "the person" back to consciousness. Equal parts Frankenstein and ...

Blood clot researchers could benefit from a new device that mimics a human vein, replacing the need for animals for some studies. The vein-on-a-chip model has been developed by scientists at the ...

WASHINGTON — At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Next Generation of Biologics Symposium, Scott Rodeo, MD, FAAOS, spoke about a clinical study that used gene-modified human umbilical vein ...