Westford,USA, Oct. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The incidence of osteoporosis, which leads to bones becoming weak and fragile, is on the rise. Currently, more 200 million people are suffering from ...

Your chance of breaking a bone sometime within the next year is nearly 4%. If you're unlucky enough to need a bone replacement, it'll probably be based on a metal part. Unfortunately, metal parts are ...

After undergoing a series of processing steps, a piece of rattan (left) fuses with natural bone (right), opening the door to the use of the wood as a bone-replacement material. A group of scientists ...

You might think that glass has no business acting as a replacement for bone, but it turns out the two materials have many similarities. For a new study published in ACS Nano, researchers developed a ...

Two million bone transplants are performed worldwide yearly, including half a million in the United States alone. Yet, a QUT-led study has found surgeons are slow to adopt newly developed biomaterials ...

Your chance of breaking a bone sometime within the next year is nearly 4%. If you're unlucky enough to need a bone replacement, it'll probably be based on a metal part. Unfortunately, metal parts are ...

Scientists have studied a range of materials as potential candidates for bone implants, including bone from cadavers, artificial wood-based bone, metals, and ceramics. But all of these materials have ...

Patients suffering from shoulder pain and loss of motion due to osteoarthritis have often relied on shoulder replacement surgery to provide pain relief and restore function when nonoperative treatment ...

Researchers have determined chemical parameters that affect the rate of calcium phosphate ceramic conversion into hydroxyapatite in a simulated body fluid. Shorter carbon chain lengths in the ...