bone growth

Researchers determined the season during which the meteor struck by studying the bones of fish excavated from a contentious field site.

The bioactive coating tethers restorative proteins to implanted tissues and fosters new growth, animal studies suggest.

Ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles enable gene delivery to fix fractures.

The new technique helped pig tibias heal in just eight weeks.

An upcoming clinical trial aims to correct for a disease of fragile bones in affected babies before they are born.

Forces from bidirectional growth plates mechanically realign broken bones in infant mice.

The cholesterol-lowering drugs could be used to treat people with two types of dwarfism, a study suggests.

A Neanderthal rib fragment provides conclusive evidence that the ancient hominins were susceptible to a benign bone tumor of modern humans.

From breast milk stem cells to bone repair, this year’s EB conference held a number of exciting advances that could one day be translated into therapies.

Vitamin D has a variety of actions in the body. It binds to the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which then binds to the retinoid X receptor (RXR) and activates the expression of numerous genes. 

Prevention trials for vitamins and supplements are notoriously difficult, but some researchers aren’t giving up on finding proof that vitamin D helps ward off disease.

There are a surprising number of unknowns about how our limbs come to be symmetrical.

How a car accident led to an important genetic discovery