Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...

Your circulatory system contains three blood vessel types: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood from the heart, unlike veins, which carry blood to the heart. According to the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There's perhaps no element of the body that captures our imagination more than the heart. We link it ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Robert Tranquillo came to the University of Minnesota in 1987 with a doctorate in chemical engineering and a budding interest in the mechanical forces that help wounds heal. Today, he ...

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.

Some people think it’s creepy. Some people think it’s cool. Most people think it’s a little of both. But one thing is certain – it’s back. “Body Worlds,” the popular exhibit featuring preserved human ...

Well, the blood has to be kept moving around all the time because it's the body's delivery system. Every possible part of the body has to be supplied with oxygen and food and water, and the veins and ...