Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine have achieved a breakthrough by discovering a new type of capillary that is involved in bone remodeling: Type R capillaries.

There are three types of blood vessel: arteries, veins and capillaries. The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood around your circulatory system. The circulatory system is the heart and all ...

It is returned to the heart in the veins. The capillaries connect the two types of blood vessel, and molecules are exchanged between the blood and the cells across their walls.

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...