Blood-Brain Barrier: Here's How This Tight Layer Protects Your Brain

Medicine & Technology Mar 20, 2024

The blood-brain barrier helps protects the brain against germs, pathogens, and other harmful things. Read to learn more.

Wireless Millirobots Navigate Hard-to-Reach Blood Vessels With Precision, Revolutionize Clot Removal and Vascular Surgery

Dec 22, 2023

For the first time, wireless millirobots navigate a narrow blood vessel both along and against arterial flow. Learn more about it in this article.

AI Brain Surgery System Could Be Possible in Next Two Years, Leading to Safer and More Effective Procedures, Neurosurgeon Reveals

Sep 29, 2023

The AI system for brain surgery analyzed more than 200 videos of pea-sized glands in the brain's center, enabling it to attain expertise equivalent to a surgeon's ten years of of experience. Read to learn more.

3D-Printed Nose Attached to Forearm To Grow Blood Vessels Before Moving It to Patient’s Face in 6-Hour Microsurgery

Aug 17, 2023

Surgeons 3D printed a nose and attached it to a patient's forearm for it to grow the necessary blood vessels before moving it to her face. Continue reading to learn the full story.

Drug For Type 2 Diabetes Can Also Decrease Blood Vessel Dysfunction, Improving Vascular Health in Ageing Adults

May 26, 2022

An FDA-approved drug that lowers blood sugar in ageing adults can help with blood vessel dysfunction. Read on to know the details.

Cell-Sized Microrobots Could Someday Change Future Medical Treatments

May 13, 2022

Researchers recently developed cell-sized robots that could someday change future medical treatments. Read on and discover more about these tiny inventions.

Long COVID Symptoms Now Includes Blood Clots Along With Taste or Smell Loss and Brain Fog

May 12, 2022

Symptoms experienced by people with long COVID are more than just loss of smell or taste and brain fog, among others. Learn about blood clots as effects, too

Breakthrough Study Reveals How Meningitis Spreads Through Fungal Infection, Block and Damage Blood Vessels

Apr 22, 2022

A comprehensive study on meningitis showed how the condition is induced by a fungal infection. Read more about how meningitis is initiated by deadly microbes.

How to Prevent Rosacea Flareups? Tips to Avoid Triggers and Reduce Skin Redness

Dec 27, 2021

Rosacea is characterized by the redness of the skin with a bumpy texture that affects more than the cheeks. Here are some trigger foods that can make it worse and are best avoided.

TAU Researchers Discovered COVID-19 Proteins That Harm Blood Vessels; Information Could Be Used to Develop New Treatment

Nov 08, 2021

Some COVID-19 patients have suffered from severe vascular damage and physicians were unsure of the mechanism triggering this complication. Now, Tel Aviv University researchers found five coronavirus proteins that are damaging blood vessels.

COVID-19 a Vascular Disease; New Study Reveals the Virus is Not a Respiratory Illness

Aug 30, 2021

A new study revealed that COVID-19 is a vascular disease and not a respiratory illness. This new research shows how the S protein of the virus is attacking receptor ACE2, impairing endothelium, lining the blood vessel.

Zinc Plays a Critical Role in Regulating Blood Pressure and Potentially Hypertension Treatment

Jun 08, 2021

Researchers unexpectedly stumbled on Zinc's vital role in regulating blood pressure and other metals associated with the expansion and contraction of blood vessels. Experts believe it has the potentials of generating pathways to new treatments.

Wound Healing Can Be Stimulated by Regulated Direct Current Electric Fields, Study Says

Mar 13, 2021

A study published by researchers from Ohio State University suggests that stimulating blood vessels with regulated direct current electric fields could positively affect proteins that hold blood vessel walls hastening blood vessels' growth, making wound healing faster and more efficiently.

Scientists Now Find a Possible Explanation Behind the Mystery of Coronavirus Blood Clotting

Jul 02, 2020

The relationship between blood platelets and viral infection is clarified in a recent study. Further research is needed to see how platelets help the immune system fight viruses such as COVID-19, and how these findings may help with vaccine developments.

Researchers Develop Stringy Robots to Explore Blood Vessels

Sep 07, 2019

A team from MIT said that their thread-like robots were designed to remove blood clots from the blood vessels.