Each 2.54 square centimetre (a square inch) of human skin has six metres (20ft) of blood vessels. Veins hold about 65 per cent of the body's blood and have one-way valves tohelp blood move.

"We grow them under the pulsatile pressure to mimic the human's blood pressure ... forming a strong, natural blood vessel.

So it's a good job we've got the circulatory system to transport nutrients, water and oxygen to the entire body. If we could join all the blood vessels in a human body together end-to-end ...

Nitric oxide is produced naturally by the human body and is one of the most important molecules for blood vessel health (1). It’s a vasodilator, meaning it relaxes the inner muscles of your ...

The vessels are elastic tubes that carry blood to every part of the body. Blood is essential. In addition to carrying fresh oxygen from the lungs and nutrients to your body's tissues, it takes the ...