Blood clots stop bleeding, but they can also form in the body when they're not needed - and lead to stroke or heart attack. WebMD explains how the blood clots for better and worse.

Strands of fibrin loop and criss-cross, creating a web that helps to form a clot and stop the bleeding. Under a microscope, this web typically resembles “a nice plate of spaghetti”, Kell says.

At the same time, proteins in the blood plasma respond to form fibrin strands. In a complex chemical reaction, these strands form and reinforce the platelet plug.

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This series of SEM images shows fibrin strands assembling a clot in an injured rat liver (scale bars are 1 μm).

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Red blood cells and platelets then form a plug at the injury site while fibrin protein strands strengthen it, Cosmos reports. The new bioengineered gel speeds up this process, with the help of the ...

By understanding the fibrin architecture, we can use that science in a protective way,” said Becker, who wasn’t involved with the research. Blood clots are a mesh of fibrin fibers bonded to ...

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