Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disorder characterized by excessive bone loss, leading to increased fragility and an increased risk of fractures. Osteoclasts, the bone-resorbing cells, are widely ...

An international research team from Bielefeld University and the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP ...

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare progeroid disorder, featured with premature skin wrinkling, lack of skin elasticity, absence of subcutaneous fat, alopecia, atherosclerosis and ...

Lysosomes are thought of as cellular organelles that play an important role in recycling proteins and maintaning cells by breaking down stuff that isn’t needed. But new research has found that ...

Common variants in the phosphoinositol phosphatase INPP5D are linked to an increased risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, but no one is quite sure why. Recent work suggests that depleting INPP5D in ...

I’d love to read a creepy science fiction story where people dissolve. I asked my friend Anders Omsland if that could happen. He’s a biomedical researcher at Washington State University. He told me a ...