Bone is never finished. Long after a skeleton reaches its adult size, the tissue continues to dismantle and rebuild itself, ...

Researchers at Capital Medical University have identified Id3 as a molecular brake that limits ultrasound-induced bone formation and shown that an inhibitory peptide called rID3, combined with ...

A recent study identifies Neural EGFL-like 2 (NELL2), a secreted protein, as a key regulator of bone homeostasis, offering potential therapeutic applications for osteoporosis. NELL2 promotes ...

Osteoblasts act in a group to make bone over the course of several months. However, how osteoblasts cooperate with each other in vivo is still unknown. Now, researchers at Osaka University established ...