Water plays a crucial role in this system, facilitating the movement of blood, which is primarily made up of plasma and red blood cells. The heart, a powerful muscle with four chambers ...

The circulatory system is the heart and all the blood vessels in the body which carry cells and substances to all its parts. The heart is a large muscular organ which pumps blood to the lungs and ...

In each cubic millimetre of blood, there are more than five million red blood cells, thousands of white cells and 250,000 to 450,000 platelets for blood clotting. Every second, 2.5 million new red ...

Scientists have discovered how aging blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth edge, creating fertile ground for the development of clonol hematopoiesis, a condition that dramatically ...

A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production ...

My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that works and if ...

Utilizing numerical simulations, researchers have succeeded in recreating the fluid dynamics of flowing cells like blood or ...

With aging there are changes in the cardiovascular ... of the arterial system. This results in increased afterload on the left ventricle, an increase in systolic blood pressure, and left ...