Fabio Jakobsen has been forced to halt cycling for the "foreseeable future" due to flow limitations in the iliac arteries in both of his legs. The Dutch sprinter is in his second season with his ...

In their experiments, the microrobots removed enough material of a blood clot inside an iliac artery to resume blood flow.

The aorta is the main blood vessel that carries oxygen-filled blood from the heart to the rest of the body. It extends from the chest to the abdomen, where it branches (bifurcates) into the iliac ...