Scientists have identified a little-known receptor, GPR133, as a powerful regulator of bone strength. By activating it with a newly discovered compound called AP503, they were able to boost bone ...

On Thursday, the Prince and Princess of Wales delighted royal fans in London as they headed to various landmarks in the capital. The pair had a busy day of engagements, which began at Southwark, ...

When you’re a teenager, your parents like taking stuff away from you: videogames, sleepover privileges, the car keys. When Braden Peters, who you know as Clavicular, was a teenager, his mom took away ...

Mechanical loading is a fundamental regulator of bone remodeling, yet most conceptual models still focus on the magnitude of strain rather than its polarity. Here we propose a unified ...

High-powered satellites use electromagnetic waveguides to deliver energy from one component to another. Typically, they are made of heavy, inflexible metal tubes with an even heavier flange on either ...

ETH researchers have developed a novel hydrogel consisting mainly of water and a polymer network. Using laser light, the researchers can very quickly solidify the hydrogel into a material with ...

The robot deploys from a compact package (0.4 × 0.3 × 0.6 m) to its full size.Southern University of Science and Technology Researchers in China have unveiled a soft humanoid robot that can shapeshift ...

Tiger shark teeth are uniquely shaped to cut through turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals. This breakdown examines how jaw strength and tooth design allow them to process prey others cannot. China ...

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...

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Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a condition that weakens bones, making them brittle and prone to fracture. Taking the hormone estradiol can reverse these effects, but it may also increase endometrial ...

To investigate the spatiotemporal secretion patterns of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) in rabbit skeletal muscle and their effects on the ectopic ...