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Tiny bones rewrite textbooks
12-12-2006 · EurekAlert!Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as well.
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- MIT researchers probe bones' tiny building blocks
05-24-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In work that could lead to more effective diagnoses and treatments of bone diseases using only a pinhead-sized sample of a patient's bone, MIT researchers report a first-of-its-kind analysis of bone's mechanical properties.
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- Smashing the time it takes to repair our bones
12-03-2006 · EurekAlert!
New research by Queensland University of Technology is helping scientists better understand how bone cells work and may one day lead to the development of technology that can speed up the time it takes to heal fractured and broken bones.
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- Gene discovered for form of brittle bone disease
12-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered that a previously unexplained fatal form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta -- a disorder that weakens bones and which may cause frequent fractures -- results from a genetic defect in a protein involved in the production of collagen.
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- Bumpy Bones: Fossil hints that dinosaur had feathery forearms
09-22-2007 · Science News Online
A series of knobs on the forearm bone of a 1.5-meter-long velociraptor provides the first direct evidence of substantial feathers on a dinosaur of that size.
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- Scientists to 'grow' bone in the laboratory
03-12-2007 · University of Bath
Damaged bones could one day be repaired using bone tissue grown in the laboratory, thanks to technology being developed through a new ВЈ310,000 grant to the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology at the University of Bath.
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- Second gene discovered for recessive form of brittle bone disease
02-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have found a second genetic defect that accounts for previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a disorder that weakens bones, sometimes results in frequent fractures and is sometimes fatal.
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- Bad to the bone: UD research to shed light on osteoporosis
11-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Ten million people in the US are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. UD scientists are now leading research that will shed light on how osteocytes -- the cells encased inside your bones -- sense external stimuli and communicate with cells on the surface, signaling them to either build more bone or remove existing bone.
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- Bone research that grows on you
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!
Rapid and guided healing of bones has moved a step closer with research by two biomedical engineering students who have found new ways to deliver bone growth enhancers directly to broken or weakened bones.
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- Layered approach may yield stronger, more successful bone implants
08-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from the American Dental Association Foundation and NIST have developed a new method for layering two kinds of biomaterials into one strong, yet porous unit that may lead to improved reconstruction or repair of bones.
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- Bones at the nanoscale
11-07-2006 · EurekAlert!
Scientists from Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the ESRF have just discovered the way deformation at the nanoscale takes place in a bone by studying it with the synchrotron X-rays. This study explains the enor-mous stability and deformability of bones. The hierarchical structure of bones makes them able to sustain large strains without breaking, de-spite being made of essentially rigid units at the molecular level.
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