Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when astronauts spend months in space, their bone density takes a serious hit that ...

Chia Soo, M.D., will never forget the day the mice came back to Earth. After four and a half weeks on the International Space Station (ISS), half of her research team’s 40 mice—part of a study on a ...

A new drug reduced bone loss in mice on the International Space Station, without causing any negative side effects. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Bethesda, MD. (July 12, 2006) – Mice receiving just one therapeutic dose of radiation lost up to 39% of the spongy portion of their inner bone, reducing the inner bone’s weight bearing connections by ...

When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the ...

Researchers headed by a team at Peking University International Cancer Center and at Peking University School and Hospital for Stomatology, used a deep learning algorithm to identify the antimalarial ...

Pregnancy takes a heavy toll on the body, brain, and bones. Although estrogen typically helps women maintain bone health, it goes offline after pregnancy, a time during which calcium is stripped from ...