Blood Clots Are Ready for Their Close-Up [Slide Show]

Image: Joseph A. Insley and Michael E. Papka, Argonne National Laboratory/ Leopold Grinberg, Brown University A blood clot is one of the final steps in a complex process with which the human body seals a rupture in an injured blood vessel. Clotting involves interactions between millions of blood cells, microscopic cell fragments called platelets, and [...]