News tagged with joint formation

Titanium coating with protein 'flower bouquet' nanoclusters strengthens implant attachment

Researchers have developed an improved coating technique that could strengthen the connection between titanium joint-replacement implants and a patients' own bone. The stronger connection -- created by manipulating ...

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created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How embryo movement stimulates joint formation

A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism that explains why joints fail to develop in embryos with paralyzed limbs. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Developmental Cell, answers a long ...

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Transforming skin cells into cartilage

In this paper, Noriyuki Tsumaki and his team at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, used fibroblasts isolated from adult mouse skin, and expressed proteins used to induce pluripotency along with a factor that ...

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created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Childhood obesity: The increasing vascular drama

Obesity is one of the most important health problems in industrialized countries irrespective of socio-economic status, age, sex or ethnicity. The prevalence of childhood obesity in children has reached alarming levels, even ...

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created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0