What keeps bones able to remodel themselves and stay healthy? A team has discovered clues to the key function of non-collagen protein compounds and how they help bone cells react to external load. The ...

While research has uncovered many details about how blood cells function within bone marrow, the work of other cells existing in that space remained a relative mystery. Now, researchers from the ...

A new paper in JAMA Network Open determines whether type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases the risk of fractures in older women. Diabetes affects over 500 million individuals worldwide, and its ...

Research indicates microplastics, pervasive in our environment, negatively impact bone health. Studies reveal these particles infiltrate bone tissue, disrupting bone marrow stem cell function and ...

This page is about cancer that starts in your bone (primary bone cancer). If your cancer has spread into bone from another part of the body, it is called secondary or metastatic bone cancer. Surgery ...

The bone marrow makes blood cells and platelets. It is a soft fatty tissue found inside the hollow shafts of bones such as the breastbone (sternum), hip bone (pelvis) and thigh bone (femur). Fibrous ...

Taking Vitamin C and calcium together improves gut calcium absorption and may also enhance bone and immune system health.

Around 500 million years ago, early vertebrates in the seas became fish, adopting an inner skeleton and a flexible spine based on a nanocmposite of fibers and mineral, known as bone material. This ...