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06/25/2018 / 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 […]

12/24/2017 / By Ralph Flores

How an active lifestyle determines your “structure” for life: Muscle activity determines skeletal health, according to recent research

Our bodies are both wonderful and mysterious at the same time – just when we think we already know everything about it, a new discovery comes and blows us out of the water. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science may have done just that, with two studies stating that our muscles play an active part in […]

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