In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly ...

Bleeding can also cause brain death, as it prevents normal circulation of oxygen to the brain and other parts of the body. For a human to function normally, regular blood supply to the brain is ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is ...

New advanced imaging technology that detects specific molecules in the brain may find signs of MS lesions months earlier, a ...

The device, called a milli-spinner, is a tiny, powerfully rotating hollow tube outfitted with fins and slits. In action, both ...

Brain scans show humans instantly detect possible actions like walking or swimming from images. Visual areas encode this ...

It also reduced nitric oxide (NO) production by about 20 percent and increased endothelin-1 (ET-1), a potent vasoconstrictor, by roughly 30 percent—changes that may disrupt cerebral blood flow ...

In the lab, they exposed human brain blood vessel cells to an erythritol solution containing roughly the same amount found in a single can of artificially sweetened beverage (about 30 grams).

For more than a century, scientists have wondered: If it’s so hard for anything to get into the brain, how does waste get out? The brain has one of the highest metabolisms of any organ in the body, ...

This Blood Vessel Was Grown in a Lab With Real Human Cells The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time.

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