Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from your heart. They have thick walls and a muscular layer that keeps your blood moving. Arteries can be as wide as a nickel (about two centimeters). They are the ...

‌Arteries and veins (also called blood vessels) are tubes of muscle that your blood flows through. Arteries carry blood away from the heart to the rest of the body. Veins push blood back to your heart ...

Blood vessels twist, branch, narrow, and balloon in ways that dramatically affect how blood flows — but most lab models have long treated them like straight pipes. Researchers at Texas A&M have now ...

Our lymphatic system is like a big network of roots spread throughout the body. It serves as part of our immune system, ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that damage to small blood vessels in the hereditary disease CADASIL may disrupt ...

Transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) isoforms are synthesized as precursor proteins that are proteolytically processed and secreted by cells in an inactive form. Latent TGFβ complexes, which are bound ...

Scientists have identified a crucial mechanism that allows plants to shape their vascular systems, determining whether they ...

President Trump’s military campaign has killed more than 100 people in the waters off Central and South America. The strikes have been widely criticized as illegal. By Anushka Patil Since September, ...

Roxanna Vigil is an international affairs fellow in national security at the Council on Foreign Relations, sponsored by Janine and J. Tomilson Hill. Since late August, the Donald Trump administration ...

Island Offshore’s new hybrid Ocean Energy Construction Vessel (OECV) has been launched to the water at Vard Shipyards Romania in Brăila.The 120-meter vessel, labeled NB 977, is designed to support ...

Shirin van Anrooij celebrated a gold medal with her Netherlands teammates in the mixed team relay at the opening day of the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships in Hulst, and she is curious about the ...