Many diseases – like sickle-cell anemia and malaria – are accompanied by changes in the stiffness of red blood cells. And while microfluidic devices capable of sorting blood cells by Keep reading
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Flow in the Heart
Few flows are more integral to our well-being than blood flow through the heart. Over the course of our lives, our hearts develop from a few cells pushing viscous blood Keep reading
Flow Inside the Heart
Inside each of us is a remarkable and constant flow, driven by a muscle that’s always at work. As blood circulates through our bodies, it goes through a surprisingly varied Keep reading
Gunshot Back-Splatter
Today blood pattern analysis is an important forensic technique used in reconstructing the events at crime scenes. Many methods use straight-line trajectories to try to isolate the origin of blood Keep reading
Drying Blood Can Reveal Anemia
Blood is a remarkably complicated fluid, thanks in part to its many constituents. What we see here is an animation of a drop of blood evaporating at several times normal Keep reading
Blood Flow Simulations
Though we may not often consider it, our bodies are full of fluid dynamics. Blood flow is a prime example, and, in this video, researchers describe their simulations of flow Keep reading