A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

Bone mineral density refers to the amount of minerals, namely calcium, in your bones. The bone density test is important for people who are at risk for osteoporosis. The bone density test is also ...

If you feel pain in your bone, even if it isn’t constant, tell your doctor. Early treatments may keep the bone from breaking. Metastatic cancer weakens bones. That makes it easier for them to ...

The authors describe 27 clearly manufactured bone tools (Fig. 1) found during excavations. Although this number might not seem huge, how the tools were made and the choice of which bones to use ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and systematically crafted tools from bone much earlier than previously ...

Department of Oral Geriatrics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Jilin ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land. Now, tens of thousands of years later, divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia, part ...