News tagged with misplaced bone

Misplaced metamorphosis: Researchers identify source of cells that spur aberrant bone growth

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have pinpointed the source of immature cells that spur misplaced bone growth. Unexpectedly, the major repository ...

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created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Study links normal function of protein, not its build up inside cells, to death of neurons

A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators links the muscle weakness and other symptoms of a rare neurodegenerative disease to a misstep in functioning of a normal protein, rather than its build-up ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 40 miles outside Cairo, Egypt, National Science Foundation-supported paleontologists from three American universities are revealing features of a newly discovered African primate and ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to be a paleontologist to suppose that way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth chances were good meat eaters would dined on one of their own. Short of a time-machine trip back ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Bone from Blood: Circulating Cells Form Bone Outside the Normal Skeleton, Study Finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The accepted dogma has been that bone-forming cells, derived from the body's connective tissue, are the only cells able to form the skeleton. However, new research shows that specialized cells ...

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ancient wounds reveal Triceratops battles

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study published in the open-access, peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE and led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, locate ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Advanced imaging technology improves spinal surgery outcome

Using a three-dimensional (3D) image-guided system to help place screws in the spines of patients results in safe and accurate surgery with a decrease in the number of misplaced screws, and subsequent injuries, seen in more ...

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created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiologists attempt to solve mystery of Tut's demise

Egyptian radiologists who performed the first-ever computed tomography (CT) evaluation of King Tutankhamun's mummy believe they have solved the mystery of how the ancient pharaoh died. The CT images and results of their study ...

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created Nov 27, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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