MicroRNA-27a has been shown to stimulate both the wingless-type integration site family, or Wnt signaling, and the bone morphogenetic protein pathways to actively promote bone regeneration, according ...

Bone is the second most commonly transplanted tissue after blood, with about two million bone transplants performed worldwide each year—but often with only moderate therapeutic success.

Bone-destructive diseases such as osteoporosis and chronic inflammatory arthritis affect millions of people worldwide, ...

After two years, the regenerated bladder tissue remained healthy, serving as a pre-clinical model for humans. Because the researchers used the baboon’s own bone marrow cells, there was no tissue ...

The hard tissue ... on this new anatomy, from discovery to translation." More information: Lincoln Biswas et al, Lymphatic vessels in bone support regeneration after injury, Cell (2023).

Nanoscale structure-property relationships of biological materials, genetic and molecular origins of soft joint tissue ... cell biology, hemodynamic forces, atherosclerosis, genomics, signal ...

Bone marrow biopsy is a term used to describe a surgical procedure in which a small portion of bone marrow is extracted from the inside of the bones to be examined under a microscope. A bone ...

Tumor cells are known to ... spread of breast cancer to bone for more than a decade. Fischbach's lab uses biomaterials in combination with cellular and tissue engineering approaches to understand ...

Only later do they become programmed to make up part of an organ, bone, or any one of the many other tissues that comprise a person. Getting our hands on those undifferentiated cells opened up new ...