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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blood marrow donation is an incredible way to make a meaningful difference in someone else's life, but there are so many myths around the process. Bone marrow transplants aim to help people with over ...

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, ...

Bones are the living tissue on which the human skeleton is constructed and play a key role in enabling physical movements. The structural integrity of bones has been attributed to bone remodeling-aa ...

Bone stimulators are a therapy that may help with bone healing in certain situations. However, the debate is still out on their effectiveness. Devices such as bone stimulators are often used for ...

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 ...