It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones.

Regular movement and adequate nutrition help maintain bone health throughout life. Weight-bearing activity, muscle-strengthening exercise and enough calcium, vitamin D and protein all contribute, ...

Bone tissue is a complex structure, consisting of mineralized collagen fibers and a variety of non-collagenous proteins, including proteoglycans such as biglycan and decorin. These proteoglycans ...

Tissue engineering combines biomaterials, cells and signalling factors to restore bone structure and function in clinical contexts where conventional grafts are limited by donor availability and ...

While research has uncovered many details about how blood cells function within bone marrow, the work of other cells existing in that space remained a relative mystery. Now, researchers from the ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that lower bone mineral density in the spine was associated with faster cognitive decline and accelerated age-related white matter injury, according to a ...