Whether you are a competitive athlete or an older adult, strong bones are essential—not only for movement, but also for ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

Each of these has a different structure and role. While skeletal muscle attaches to your bones and helps you move, cardiac muscle is the muscle fibers of your heart and responsible for its pumping ...

Despite their similar structure, however, not all bones are created equal: in vertebrates (including humans), the various parts of the skeleton arise from different groups of precursor cells ...

“The bones were selected ... Whoever composed the burial understood enough about the human skeletal structure to create a convincing puzzle. As Veselka tells New Scientist, “They knew what ...