Whether you are a competitive athlete or an older adult, strong bones are essential—not only for movement, but also for ...

the basic outline of each of your baby's bones is established according to instructions from various genes. By the time you're about 7 weeks pregnant, the map of your baby's entire skeleton has ...

Dr. Jan Patrick Pett, co-first author from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said, "We're excited to have created the first multi-omic map of the developing human skeleton, something that has vast ...

But during a recent reexamination of the bones, researchers noticed peculiarities. For instance, the skeleton’s spine appeared to be made of both adolescent and adult vertebrae. “I started ...

Full view of how bones and joints form in the first trimester uncovers cells and pathways that could help diagnose and treat skeletal conditions in the future. The first 'blueprint' of human ...