Get to know the functions of your heart, blood vessels, and blood itself and how they work together to maintain your health.

To explore possible treatments for various diseases, either animal models or human cell cultures are usually used first; however, animal models do not always mimic human diseases well, and cultures ...

The aging of the innermost cell layer of blood vessels leads to cardiovascular diseases. Researchers have now shown for the first time that intestinal bacteria and their metabolites contribute ...

One of the most common uses of heart CT scans is to check for coronary artery disease—blockages in the arteries that bring ...

In experiments with mouse models of breast, pancreatic, and muscle cancers, researchers at Johns Hopkins All Children’s ...

A fractal, according to Franco-Polish mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, is ‘a way of seeing infinity’. Simply put, it is a pattern that appears to self-replicate indefinitely, constantly reproducing an ...

DMT, or dimethyltryptamine is a natural psychoactive molecule found in many plants and mammals. According to an article ...

This interactive quiz is suitable for Higher Human Biology students studying division and differentiation in human cells. Quiz: Structure and replication of DNA - Higher Human This interactive quiz is ...