Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered a new type of bone cell that may yield novel therapeutic targets and strategies for osteoporosis and other skeletal diseases.

Earlier, Ralf Adams and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine had discovered so-called Type H and Type L capillaries in long bones. Type H capillaries are exclusively found ...

WHAT IS BRITTLE BONE DISEASE? Brittle bone disease, also called osteogenesis imperfecta, is a genetic disorder present from birth and lasts a lifetime. It causes fragile bones that break easily due to ...

Scientists from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and elsewhere have been able to pinpoint cells in mouse bone marrow that give rise to specific types of ...