All Articles Tagged As: bones

Heart hormone crucial for skeletal growth in the foetus, children and adolescents (2/10/2008)

Researchers have broken new scientific ground with discoveries regarding a previously little understood heart hormone, showing how it is crucial for bone development and growth after birth. ...> Full Article

Turning on adult stem cells may help repair bone (1/26/2008)

Potential new approach to treating osteoporosis, other degenerative conditions ...> Full Article

Partnership formed to develop bone marrow stem cell technology (11/20/2007)

The University of Louisville Monday announced a partnership between the UofL Research Foundation and NeoStem Inc., a New York City-based adult stem cell company, to develop Very Small Embryonic-Like stem cell (VSEL) technology. ...> Full Article

Seaweed Transformed Into Stem Cell Technology (11/9/2007)

Engineers develop degradable scaffold that releases stem cells in the body ...> Full Article

New enzyme research targets osteoporosis (9/25/2007)

Biophysical chemist is working on new research which one day may slow down or switch off certain diseases. ...> Full Article

Researchers send experiments into space (9/14/2007)

When a Foton spacecraft launches from Kazakhstan on Sept. 14, two U of T professors will be bidding farewell to its passengers. Not to astronauts - the ship is unmanned - but to their experiments. ...> Full Article

Scientists speed healing of bone damage (9/7/2007)

Blocking a naturally occurring inhibitor of bone formation accelerates healing of skull defects in mice, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The finding advances the understanding of how the skeleton develops and opens new therapeutic avenues for many of the disorders that are expected to afflict aging baby boomers. ...> Full Article

Molecules that Play Role in Bone Size (9/5/2007)

Mice that do not make the protein CD200 have bigger bones, a finding that raises possibilities for treating osteoporosis, according to a report this week by a Yale School of Medicine researcher in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Researchers Probe Bones' Tiny Building Blocks (5/25/2007)

Team's results could lead to new composites that mimic bones' capacity to 'fail gracefully' ...> Full Article

Researchers Growing Bone in a Lab (5/22/2007)

As the nation ages, an estimated 44 million Americans, including at least half of those ages 50 and older, are at risk for osteoporosis, making their bones fragile and vulnerable to serious fractures. ...> Full Article

Neural Mechanisms Play Role In Healthy Bone Growth (4/24/2007)

Scientists searching for a gene therapy to control obesity have unexpectedly discovered a way that the brain regulates bone growth, a finding that shines new light on osteoporosis and other bone-robbing diseases. ...> Full Article

Intelligent materials to regenerate bone tissue (3/30/2007)

Scientists working on the regeneration and repair of bone tissue by developing a support matrix out of a compound that is intelligent. ...> Full Article