Bones form the scaffolding that hold the body together and allow it to move. They also help protect vital organs, store minerals, and provide an environment for creating bone marrow. By adulthood, ...

In addition to providing a framework for your body, bones also serve many other important biological functions, such as protecting your internal organs from harm and storing essential nutrients. Read ...

The bone marrow is the spongy tissue on the inside of your bones. It produces blood cells and later becomes responsible for storing fat and certain stem cells. A bone marrow malfunction is related to ...

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) have multiple roles in skeletal development, homeostasis and regeneration. BMPs signal via type I and type II serine/threonine kinase receptors (BMPRI and BMPRII).

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 ...

Earlier, Ralf Adams and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine had discovered so-called Type H and Type L capillaries in long bones. Type H capillaries are exclusively found ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the ...

Here, we provide a comparative survey of the histology of postcranial dermal-armor osteoderms of ankylosaurs, including material of polacanthids (Polacanthus foxii, Gastonia sp.), ankylosaurids (e.g., ...

Bone cancer is when cells in your bones grow out of control. Usually, when you have bone cancer, it comes from another cancer that has spread to your bones or metastatic bone cancer. But sometimes, ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery that allows them to attribute two types of tumour almost entirely to specific mutations that lie in two related genes. Scientists have made a rare discovery that ...