bone strength
06/25/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Scientists take super close-up shots of the human bone to understand why they are so strong
To truly understand the sturdiness of human bones, U.K. researchers have peered deeper into their structure than ever before. In a Scientific American article, they reported finding helix-shaped nanostructures twisting into and around equally thin spirals of fibrils. The nanostructures are made up of mineral crystallites, while fibrils are a type of protein collagen. These […]
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