Researchers At Carnegie Mellon Improve Assessments Of Aortic Aneurysms
Carnegie Mellon University’s Ender Finol has received a two-year, $602,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop methodologies for accurately evaluating the risk of aneurysms rupturing in the human body’s main artery, which carries more than 5,000 quarts of blood daily through the human body.Like a great city, the body needs a transport system to carry its vital cargoes of blood through more than 60,000 miles of arteries, veins and capillaries.
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Filed under: Biology on June 17th, 2008