Blood transfusions are crucial in human and veterinary medicine, yet human blood reserves are in constant need of donors, ...

It has long been suspected that endothelial cells, the specialized cells lining the inner walls of blood vessels, play a key ...

Umbilical cord blood stem cells show promise for improving movement in children with cerebral palsy. These special cells may ...

(Ritu Raman/MIT) Science may one day give us a way to replace damaged and diseased parts of the body with artificial replacements – but reproducing organs and tissues in the lab isn't easy. That's ...

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to regenerate blood vessels.

Bryan Johnson says reprogrammed stem cells could one day grow replacement organs and test treatments after his autoimmune ...

Adipose tissue is far more important for our health than many may realize. It does not merely function as an energy store, but as an active tissue that continuously communicates with the rest of the ...

Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints form unique designs, and zebras can be identified by their distinctive ...

Researchers led by MIT have developed a ground-breaking method to control the growth of lab-grown blood vessels using ...

B-cell depletion therapies in multiple sclerosis (MS) work in part by mobilizing protective B cells from the gut.

Artificial tissues can mimic muscle, liver, kidney and skin, but they still face a basic survival problem: cells need blood vessels. Without a dense vascular network, oxygen and nutrients cannot ...