How much do you know about your bones? If you're like most Americans, the answer is likely "not much." That's because understanding bone health often only becomes a priority after problems appear — ...

Bone health in children and adolescents is shaped by the dynamic interplay between skeletal growth, hormonal factors, nutrition and mechanical loading. During early life, bone modelling establishes ...

A recent study by the University of Eastern Finland is the first to report that the fatty acid composition of blood and the enzyme activity associated with it predict the development of bone mineral ...

Both lean and fat mass indices affect BMD and osteoporosis risk, with the specific clinical relationships varying by biological sex.

Studying the effects of space travel on bone of experimental animals provides unique advantages, including the ability to perform post-mortem analysis and mechanical testing. To synthesize the ...

The composition of the skull bone is unique and plays a direct role in influencing brain health through small channels in the bone and immune cell expression pathways, reported researchers based at ...

A recent discovery could transform our understanding of bone health maintenance and pave the way for potential treatments for bone diseases, including osteoporosis. Researchers at the University of ...

India, June 26 -- Researchers at Vilnius University are developing a biomimetic ceramic material with antibacterial ...

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