Research led by Vladimír Sládek sheds new light on how bones age, questioning long-standing assumptions that sedentary ...
The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, ...
More men are now living long enough to develop osteoporosis. But few are aware of the risk, and fewer still are screened and ...
More than 50 years ago when Chris Lundy was 21, he had a life-saving bone marrow transplant at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. At that time, transplant for blood disorders was a new and evolving procedure ...
Image: A Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scan of a human hip bone, left, and a human spine, right. Credit: NASA Are bigger bones stronger bones? Not necessarily, according to a recent NASA ...
Growth plates are areas of cartilage found at the ends of long bones. They play a role in the bone growth of children and teens. An injury to a growth plate can affect the development of a bone. While ...