Medical research

With mini-vessels, mini-brains expand research potential

Scientists have recently made a wondrous variety of mini-brains—3-D cultures of neural cells that model basic properties of living brains—but a new finding could add to the field's growing excitement in an entirely new ...

Oncology & Cancer

Blood flow is a major influence on tumor cell metastasis

Scientists have long theorized that blood flow plays an integral role in cancer metastasis. But new research testing this long-held hypothesis in zebrafish and humans confirms that the circulatory blood flow impacts the position ...

Medical research

The body's bacteria affect intestinal blood vessel formation

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered a previously unknown mechanism which helps intestinal bacteria to affect the formation of blood vessels. The results, which are ...

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