For 10 years, Karina Yaniv has worked to find out just how much zebrafish have in common with mice—at least when it comes to their lymphatic systems, the open-ended networks of vessels best known for ...

The lymphatic system is a network of tissues and organs, including the spleen, lymph nodes and vessels. One of the functions of the lymphatic system is that it provides your body with immunity.

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...

Scrotal lymphedema occurs when you have a blockage in the lymphatic vessels in your scrotum. Your scrotum is the sac beneath your penis that holds your testicles, which make sperm. Scrotal lymphedema ...

When a tumor develops, it creates a structure around itself called the tumor stroma, within which blood and lymphatic vessels ...

Unlike blood vessels, lymphatic vessels do not have consistent locations and branching patterns, making them hard to locate ...