Our bodies are filled with a network of blood vessels responsible for keeping our cells oxygenated and carrying away waste products. In many ways, our blood vessels are tiny pipes, Keep reading
Tag: medicine
How COVID-19 Affects the Lungs
One of the best known COVID-19 symptoms of this pandemic is difficulty breathing, and while you’ve likely heard a lot about ventilators used to help patients get oxygen, you may Keep reading
COVID-19 and Outdoor Exercise
By now you’ve probably come across some blog posts and news articles about a new pre-print study looking at the aerodynamics of running and the potential exposure to exhaled droplets. Keep reading
Replacing Injections With Pills
In medicine, many medications contain molecules too large to be easily absorbed through the intestinal wall, so these so-called biologics — like the insulin administered to diabetics — are injected Keep reading
Fluid Dynamics and Disease Transmission
Right now people around the world are experiencing daily disruptions as a result of the recently declared coronavirus pandemic. There is a lot we don’t know yet about coronavirus, though Keep reading
Tranquilizer Darts in Slow Mo
Like most syringes, tranquilizer darts use pressure to drive flow. But where a typical syringe has that pressurization provided by a human driving the piston, tranquilizer darts must deploy without Keep reading
Moving Droplets
Microfluidic devices – such as those used by individuals with diabetes to monitor their blood glucose levels – are all about transport. Typically, these devices use some kind of externally Keep reading
Sorting Blood Cells
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
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
Swallowing Physics
Swallowing – whether of food, beverage, or medication – is an important process for humans, but it’s one many struggle with, especially as they age. To help study the physics Keep reading