Bones & Muscles

A condition which causes deformity of the hand – leading in the most severe cases to impairment and disability – can now be successfully treated by using drugs developed in recent years for the treatment of different forms of arthritis

EPFL scientists have developed a gel that can locally reinforce bones weakened by osteoporosis. The startup they created, called Flowbone, has just made it through the second round of the Venture Kick competition

In test with mice, the sterosome activated bone regeneration was activated without needing additional drugs

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a second gene that causes melorheostosis, a rare group of conditions involving an often painful and disfiguring overgrowth of bone tissue

Use of low-dose methotrexate was tied to increased risk for skin cancer and gastrointestinal, lung and blood side effects

Conventional thinking is that bone regeneration is left to a small number of mighty cells called skeletal stem cells, which reside within larger groups of bone marrow stromal cells

Bone metabolism is strictly regulated, and impaired regulation caused by hormonal imbalances induces systemic bone loss.