News tagged with skeletal growth

A 'giant' step toward explaining differences in height: Scientists map height 'hotspots' in the genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of more than 200 institutions, led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, the Broad Institute, and a half-dozen other institutions in Europe and North ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global warming slows coral growth in Red Sea

In a pioneering use of computed tomography (CT) scans, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that carbon dioxide (CO2)-induced global warming is in the process of killing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New insights into limb formation

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the University of Connecticut Health Center (U.C.H.C.) have gained new understanding of the role hyaluronic acid (HA) plays in skeletal growth, chondrocyte ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Researchers discover target that could ease spinal muscular atrophy symptoms

is no cure for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic disorder that causes the weakening of muscles and is the leading genetic cause of infant death, but University of Missouri researchers have discovered a new therapeutic ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0