It might be hard to believe when you're being jabbed from the inside by a pointy elbow or when a little bottom is pushing on your bladder that your baby's bones are still soft, flexible, and a long ...

Teenagers' bodies change fast. Bones grow, muscles develop, and balance is altered. Adolescence can be a time of high energy, ...

Constructed image from spatial transcriptomics slides measuring gene expression in tissues. This shows the developing upper limb, including the developing hand and digits. Each spot represents a ...

The first 'blueprint' of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of arthritis, and highlighting cells involved in conditions that affect skull and bone ...

Calcium matters for everyone, but it plays an extra important role when you're pregnant, helping your baby grow while also ...

Normal, regulated growth of skeletal bones is a crucial part of the growth of mammals. This is a complex process involving ...

Hypertrophic chondrocytes are deeply involved in the growth of mammalian bones. Researchers find that these cells transform ...

Adolescence is accompanied by rapid body changes: bones grow, muscles develop, and balance changes. The researchers note that ...