bone growth

Blocking an abnormally active signaling pathway in skeletal stem and progenitor cells alleviates bone mass decline in middle-aged mice. 

Researchers use organoid cultures in unique ways to study health and disease.

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