Blood vessel simulation probes secrets of brain
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 11:01
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Zoom down to one artery in your body, and the commotion is constant: blood cells hurtle down the passage with hundreds of their kin, bumping against other cells and the walls as they go. The many variables -- and the sheer immensity of the human circulatory systemhave kept scientists from closely documenting the rough-and-tumble life inside blood vessels.