In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

The first "blueprint" of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of arthritis, and highlighting cells involved in conditions that affect skull and bone ...

Immunofluorescence imaging of tibiae from Clec14a −/− and Clec14a +/+ mice was performed to assess the organisation of the vasculature. In mice of both genotypes at P4, immunofluorescence imaging of ...

Bones continue to grow robustly through early postnatal to juvenile stages. Remarkably, the length of the long bones increases by ~3 to 4 times during these stages in mice 1. At the same time, bone ...

If you have ever broken a bone, you quickly learn two things: it hurts a lot, and bones are living tissue that takes time to heal, but they do heal. A fractured femur, for instance, may take six ...

Scientists have identified a protein that blocks the activity of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts) by stopping them from maturing during the journey to sites of bone formation, a new study has found.

In a recent study, Associate Professor Makoto Ikeya (Department of Clinical Application) and his team of researchers successfully established a method to generate jawbone-like organoids (mini-organs) ...