The existence of different blood types is one of the most frustrating realities of human biology, offering very little in the ...

When cancer spreads, tiny amounts of cells can break away from tumors and circulate in the bloodstream. A liquid biopsy is a ...

When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep’s blood into human patients weakened by too generous ...

Openwater has developed a low-intensity focused ultrasound device that might one day noninvasively disrupt microclots in long ...

Platelets are clot-forming cell fragments that circulate through the blood. In retrospect, they make perfect sense as the body’s serotonin truckers because they absorb the gut-derived hormone, store ...

For the first time in the world, a Korean research team has discovered how aging in one part of the body can spread to another via the bloodstream. The discovery offers new insights into how aging ...

VO₂ Max represents the peak oxygen consumption rate of your body during intense physical activity, which indicates your ...