Calcium is indispensable for bone growth, and vitamin D is needed to maintain proper amounts of calcium in the body. But as people age, they lose bone mass, often despite taking supplements of calcium ...

A weird study that involved alligator corpses also turned up a bone-eating life-form in the depths of the sea. For their study, scientists strapped three dead alligators into weighted harnesses and ...

Plenty of lifestyle and health factors can put you on a fast track to osteoporosis.

Skeletal stem cells form part of the bone marrow stroma, where they contribute to bone growth, bone modeling, and bone remodeling during life. In addition to this, they help produce adipocytes the ...

Genes long known to control the formation of bones before birth also control bone healing later in life, a new study found. Genes long known to control the formation of bones before birth also control ...