Bones communicate with the rest of the body to support overall health: Here's the science behind your skeleton

Each year, doctors treat more than 6 million bone fractures in the United States. And while it takes only a few seconds for a ...
Phys.org

Cartilage and bone development: Three paths to skeleton formation

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 ...
Medical Xpress

Exercise at consistent times could realign body clock for better skeletal health and performance, scientists suggest

Consistent daily patterns of exercise and rest can synchronize the local body clocks associated with joints and spine with the brain clock, potentially helping individuals to maintain skeletal health, ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

The Role of Protein and Amino Acids in Sustaining and Enhancing Performance

Skeletal muscle is the largest non-adipose tissue body component and serves both voluntary and involuntary life-sustaining functions. Skeletal muscle composition can be considered in terms of atomic, ...

Modern human skeletal biology needs to move beyond the strict male/female binary, scientists argue

While analytical methods portray skeletal sex differences as almost purely binary (female or male), a person's sex—including ...
Nature

Association between skeletal muscle mass and mammographic breast density

Mammographic density (MD) of the breast and body mass index (BMI) are inversely associated with each other, but have inconsistent associations with respect to the risk of breast cancer. Skeletal ...