Researchers are closer to understanding the earliest beginnings of the circulatory system during embryonic development – a discovery that could lead to ways to repair damage in the human body after ...

All vertebrates except cold-water ice fish transport oxygen via hemoglobin packaged in red blood cells (RBCs). Vertebrate RBCs vary in size by thirtyfold. Differences in RBC size have been known for ...

Scientists from the Dublin, Ireland-based RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences report the development of a new lab-based model of a heart and circulatory system. The goal is to help test ...