Tags: mathematics, Research
![An image of a five-day-old zebra fish embryo the researchers used for their work](https://physicalsciences.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/blood_redistribution.png)
A New Mathematical Modeling to Produce Capillaries
Professor Marcus Roper and recent grad Yujia Qi used zebra fish embryo for their work. Previous models had treated blood as a homogeneous fluid, and could not make any network that contained loops, even one as simple as the zebrafish’s.