A new grant from the National Institutes of Health is supporting work led by UD mechanical engineer Michael Hast and his graduate students Farzad Abdi and Badhan Saha to improve methods to monitor ...

Inspired by how bones heal naturally, researchers have engineered a laser-structured hydrogel that could one day replace ...

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Messenger RNA technology could have broad applications beyond preventing COVID-19 with vaccines. Besides the infectious disease and cancer areas that industry leaders BioNTech and Moderna are already ...

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 ...

Bones broken in a skiing accident usually heal on their own. But if the break is too severe or a bone tumor needs to be removed, surgeons insert an implant that enables the bone to grow back together.

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson found evidence that a drug that improves the ability to walk in people with multiple sclerosis can also make bone fractures heal ...