At this very moment, voracious cells are eating away at your bones. Not to worry, though — that’s just a normal part of bone maintenance in healthy adults. The formation of new bone cells balances out ...

Based on DNA evidence and numerous cut marks on the bones, scientists think that multiple assailants attacked Béla, Duke of ...

Prolonged, excessive accumulation of fluoride can cause a debilitating bone and joint disease known as skeletal fluorosis. As an increased level of fluoride accumulates in the bones, it alters the ...

THE MYSTERY behind a 2,500-year-old skeleton formed of bones belonging to different people has finally been solved after it left experts baffled. Scientists in Belgium believe the bizarre find made up ...

Two new studies suggest that the sugar-regulating hormone insulin may play a role in bone health, and implicate the skeleton as a major regulator of energy metabolism Insulin, the well-known blood ...

Researchers from Monash University and St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne have used mathematical modelling combined with advanced imaging technology to calculate, for the first ...

Science writer Brian Switek has long been obsessed with bones. Mostly those have been dinosaur bones, as Brian's an enthusiast who spends much time digging for, thinking about and writing about ...

Skeletal stem cells form part of the bone marrow stroma, where they contribute to bone growth, bone modeling, and bone remodeling during life. In addition to this, they help produce adipocytes the ...