When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

Researchers have resolved one of the great unknowns in bone self-repair: how the cells responsible for forming new bone tissue are called into action. Their work reveals the role of an ...

Crystal clear: transmission electron microscope image showing a blob of amorphous calcium phosphate that is beginning to crystallize at the bottom left. (Courtesy: Antiope Lotsari/Chalmers University ...

A new process that partially recreates the bone growth process that occurs before birth has been developed by Penn Medicine and the University of Illinois researchers at Chicago. The new process ...

In cooperation with colleagues from the Wyss Institute at Harvard, researchers from the Julius Wolff Institute, the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, and Charité's Center for ...

What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant? A bone marrow transplant is a surgery that replaces damaged or diseased bone marrow with healthy marrow. Bone marrow is a spongy material inside your bones where your ...

Scientists have shown how mechanically optimized constructs known as titanium-mesh scaffolds help optimize bone regeneration. In cooperation with colleagues from the Wyss Institute at Harvard, ...