Humans are the only primates that walk on two legs. Scientists believe that their uniquely shaped pelvis, the bones that connect the spine to the legs, makes this possible. However, researchers didn’t ...

A pair of proteins, YAP and TAZ, has been identified as conductors of bone development in the womb and could provide insight into genetic diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta, known commonly as ...

SSCs are essential for bone development, homeostasis, and repair. Recent studies have identified distinct SSC populations in long bones, craniofacial bones, and spine. Techniques like single-cell ...

If you have ever broken a bone, you quickly learn two things: it hurts a lot, and bones are living tissue that takes time to heal, but they do heal. A fractured femur, for instance, may take six ...

Reviewed by Ann Kearns, MD, PhD, associate professor and chair of Quality and Safety in the Division of Endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. "Medical Journeys" is a set of ...

New publication outlines the stakeholder-driven, evidence-based process behind a global, multilingual platform for people living with osteoporosis and their caregivers. A new paper published in ...

Working with her team at Saarland University, Bergita Ganse (photo) has discovered that commercially available devices for examining blood flow and oxygen saturation in skin and muscles can also be ...