{"id":28129,"date":"2026-02-11T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/260210040616-htm\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:41:00","slug":"260210040616-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=28129","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just made living blood vessels on a chip that act like real ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blood vessels twist, branch, narrow, and balloon in ways that dramatically affect how blood flows \u2014 but most lab models have long treated them like straight pipes. Researchers at Texas A&#038;M have now built a new kind of \u201cvessel-chip\u201d that mirrors the real complexity of human blood vessels, from aneurysms to dangerous constrictions.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/02\/260210040616.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.sciencedaily.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood vessels twist, branch, narrow, and balloon in ways that dramatically affect how blood flows \u2014 but most lab models have long treated them like straight pipes. Researchers at Texas A&#038;M have now built a new kind of \u201cvessel-chip\u201d that mirrors the real complexity of human blood vessels, from aneurysms to dangerous constrictions. Source: www.sciencedaily.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[18659,3084,18869,13685,13756,10660,14684],"class_list":["post-28129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-act","tag-blood","tag-chip","tag-living","tag-real","tag-scientists","tag-vessels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}