ATLAS, in classical mythology, was the deity who supported the earth and heavens on his titanic shoulders. In human anatomy atlas is the name given to the bone at the top of the spine. It didn’t get ...

For most of the tissues in the human body, the anatomy of cell differentiation is known. This is not true, however, for bone marrow. One of the reasons lies in the complexities that surround the ...

While research has uncovered many details about how blood cells function within bone marrow, the work of other cells existing in that space remained a relative mystery. Now, researchers from the ...

Stem cells located in the bone marrow generate and control the production of blood and immune cells. Researchers have now developed new methods to reveal the three-dimensional organization of the bone ...

Regrowing or replacing bone lost to disease is tricky and often painful. In a new study Australian researchers have found a relatively simple way to induce stem cells to turn into bone cells quickly ...