Scientists convert wool waste into bone repair material that outperforms expensive collagen, creating better-aligned healing ...

It turns out that broken bones do not heal like doctors thought they did. For years it has been thought that fibrin was essential for bone repair. Fibrin is a protein that aids in blood clotting and ...

Researchers have developed a soft laser-printed scaffold made almost entirely of water that bone cells readily colonize.

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

A membrane spun from sheep’s wool helped rats regrow skull bone that was stronger and more organized than bone produced by the collagen scaffolds surgeons have relied on for decades. The results, ...

Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on track often takes just as long. Doctors typically rely on periodic X-rays, capturing two-dimensional images to see how the ...

A new grant from the National Institutes of Health is supporting work led by UD mechanical engineer Michael Hast and his graduate students Farzad Abdi and Badhan Saha to improve methods to monitor ...

Researchers uncover a redox-regulated mechanism that determines whether bone fractures heal or progress to nonunion BEIJING, BEIJING, CHINA, February 2, 2026 ...

Broken wrists are among the most common injuries in children, accounting for about half of children's fractures. Severely ...