Mining data from the Framingham Heart Study, scientists say they've been able to tease out the effects of natural selection on humans. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Stearns explains how ...

A new study has pinpointed a natural ingredient of human blood that effectively blocks HIV-1, the virus predominantly responsible for human AIDS, from infecting immune cells and multiplying. The ...

This is exactly what has now been achieved at TU Wien: The team established a method using ultrashort laser pulses to create tiny blood vessels in a rapid and reproducible manner. Experiments show ...

Artificial blood may become a common reality, thanks to the first successful transfusion of lab-grown blood into a human. Luc Douay, of Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, extracted ...

An amendment to the blood-clotting pathway might link Viagra to heart attacks in some users.

She noted that natural cells had also turned the artificial vessel into natural body tissue. More pre-clinical trials will be carried out before the artificial blood vessels can be used on humans.

Researchers have discovered that protection from the most severe form of malaria is linked with natural variation in human red blood cell genes. A study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ...