osteoporosis

A large trial adds to a growing list of conditions once thought to be helped by vitamin D supplementation.

Researchers use innovative plant-based biomaterials to grow new bone for restoring depleted bone mass after space travel.

An all-in-one system simplifies stool collection and stabilizes DNA for microbiome profile analysis.

Animal studies and a few small clinical trials show it’s possible to get commensal microbes to protect against bone loss, rather than contribute to it.

CLARITY made mouse bones transparent while preserving fluorescent labels so researchers could visualize tagged osteoprogenitors.

Mice engineered to have just one copy of the gene Myc live longer, healthier lives than wild-type animals.

Two new approaches to test bone density provide a simpler way to predict risk of osteoporosis.