Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models replicated vessels like straight, simple roads. To better capture the complex ...

Over 100,000 individuals in the United States are currently in need of organ transplants. The demand for organs, such as hearts, kidneys, and livers, far exceeds the available supply and people ...

The brain relies on real-time delivery of oxygen and nutrients through its microvasculature, which threads through neural ...

Senior author Professor Anthony Weiss from the Charles Perkins Centre said while others have tried to build blood vessels with various degrees of success before, this is the first time scientists have ...

How can we investigate the effects of a new drug? How can we better understand the interaction between different organs to grasp the systemic response? In biomedical research, so-called ...

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Networks adapt over time and in this way form a kind of memory. Researchers show that the structure of blood vascular network is dynamic and can adapt to external factors. In particular, the ...

Because blood vessels need to withstand significant forces, the research team next turned to a process known as melt electrowriting. This is a 3D-printing technique that can make intricate rigid ...