For most of the tissues in the human body, the anatomy of cell differentiation is known. This is not true, however, for bone marrow. One of the reasons lies in the complexities that surround the ...
First things first: Is David Mitchell’s new novel The Bone Clocks another Cloud Atlas, a multi-era-spanning masterpiece of literary ambition and dexterity? The Bone Clocks twines around Holly Sykes, a ...
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 ...
The bone marrow, which is the spongy and viscous tissue that fills the bone, is the site of blood cell formation or hematopoiesis. If the bone marrow doesn’t work properly, it can lead to many blood ...
Regrowing or replacing bone lost to disease is tricky and often painful. In a new study Australian researchers have found a relatively simple way to induce stem cells to turn into bone cells quickly ...
Stem cells located in the bone marrow generate and control the production of blood and immune cells. Researchers have now developed new methods to reveal the three-dimensional organization of the bone ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. British novelist David Mitchell is best known as the guy who wrote the great novel ...
One of the main problems with bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is the fact that it not only causes new bone to grow right at the injury site, but also within the surrounding soft tissue. This happens ...