Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study. The new approach, which ...

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells ...

A breakthrough in bioprinting of living tissues could soon lead to 3D-printing of blood vessels and human organs, ushering in ...

Every day, hospitals throughout the U.S. transfuse blood or blood components, such as platelets, to save the lives of people who are in car crashes, and victims of fires and other emergencies.

It's estimated that around 13.4 million infants are born prematurely around the world, and preterm north complications are a ...

Delaying umbilical cord clamping allows vital nutrients to transfer to newborns, improving iron levels. WHO recommends ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during gestational development and could serve as biomarkers to inform new precision ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

The Cleveland Clinic describes the vital role of a healthy placenta. It's a temporary organ that forms in the uterus, or womb ...

Blood pressure (BP), mean PBF, mean carotid artery blood flow (CBF), and mean umbilical artery blood flow were measured from heartbeat to heartbeat. We measured blood flow, in ml/min, during the ...

If umbilical vessel catheterisation was performed as an emergency procedure ... insertion depth was at the level of the skin on the abdominal wall, to confirm that blood could be aspirated through the ...