All Articles Tagged As: osteoporosis

Same Process Discovered To Both Form Skeleton and Protect it For Life (3/14/2008)

Findings Suggests Related Treatments for Bone Cancer, Osteoporosis and Alzheimer's ...> 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

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