Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that networks of misplaced immune cells drive an aggressive lung disease, ...

Osteoporosis causes more than two million fractures in the United States every year. Often called the “silent disease,” ...

Fermented dairy products and probiotics may support bone health by enhancing calcium absorption, modulating inflammation, and ...

Growth hormone injections deliver a synthetic growth hormone to the body to treat hormone deficiencies and other health ...

and strength training to stimulate bone growth. In more severe cases, doctors may prescribe medications such as bisphosphonates to slow bone loss or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for ...

A UConn professor and researcher who 28 years ago discovered a gene for a protein that limits human muscle growth is closer than ever to having ... myostatin inhibitors to treat muscle-related ...

The global point-of-care (POC) diagnostics market is witnessing significant growth, driven by the increasing prevalence of chronic and infectious diseases. With conditions such as diabetes, ...

Bone development is the formation and growth of bones. New bone is formed by the action of specialised cells called osteoblasts and osteoclasts, either by directly laying down bone tissue into ...

For more than a decade, I have worked as a physician and public-health expert responding to infectious diseases around the world. In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea, I contracted and ...

PLS3 codes for an actin-bundling protein with a broad pattern of expression. As such, it is puzzling how PLS3 specifically leads to bone-related disease presentation. Our review aims to summarize the ...

Genetic heterotopic ossification is very rare. It happens when certain genetic diseases cause extraskeletal bone growth. Non-genetic heterotopic ossification can happen to anyone, usually after a ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought ...