Our fat tissue could be used to make our bones regrow, with scientists successfully using adipose cells to repair spinal compression fractures. It could change how breaks are treated and improve bone ...

From left to right, biomedical engineering doctoral student Ethan Gerhard; co-corresponding author and Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering Su Yan; first author and biomedical ...

Egg shells could be used to help grow human bone fragments to repair broken or chipped bones. Bones grow inside the body on a kind of scaffold called the extracellular matrix, which helps guide and ...

Tooth loss and bone degeneration are problems that modern medicine still struggles to fix. Data from the National Bone Health Policy Institute shows that 10 million Americans over the age of 50 have ...

Millions of people suffering from the grinding pain of osteoarthritis may soon have new hope beyond painkillers and joint replacement surgery. Researchers, led by Dr. Nidhi Bhutani, have discovered a ...