Bone and Spine News

November 4, 2024

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Pitchers Rejoice? Plasma Irradiation Might Prevent Tendon Re-Tears

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have found that using non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma on rotator cuff tears resulted in accelerated healing of the tendon-bone junction with improved strength in comparison to a control ...

Clinical Trial for Treating Spinal Cord Injury Using Olfactory Cell Nerve Bridges

Oct. 22, 2024 — Realizing a Phase I human clinical trial commencing to test the efficacy and safety of the transplantation of olfactory cell nerve bridges to treat chronic spinal cord ...

Why Breast Cancer Spreads to Bone

Oct. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate why breast cancer spreads to bone. Their findings hold promise for advancing the development of preclinical tools to predict breast cancer bone ...

Protein Blocking Bone Development Could Hold Clues for Future Osteoporosis Treatment

Oct. 11, 2024 — Scientists have identified a protein that blocks the activity of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts) by stopping them from maturing during the journey to sites of bone formation, a new study has ...

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Bones from Tudor Mary Rose Shipwreck Suggest Handedness Might Affect Collarbone Chemistry

Oct. 30, 2024 — A new study of human skeletal remains from the wreck of the 16th century English warship Mary Rose suggests that whether a person is right- versus ...

Researchers Aim to Get Leg Up on Bone Repair With 3D-Printed Femur

Oct. 29, 2024 — Mechanical engineers designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The study, which focused on the middle section ...

Enhanced Cardiovascular Function With Spinal Cord Transcutaneous Stimulation in High-Level Spinal Cord Injury

Oct. 28, 2024 — New research shows that stimulation of the lumbosacral vertebrae region significantly elevated low blood pressure, unlike cervical or upper thoracic ...

Opioids May Negatively Impact Hormone Health

Oct. 24, 2024 — A new scientific statement released today by the Endocrine Society highlights research gaps associated with the negative effects of opioid use on the endocrine ...

Evidence Builds for Near Infrared Light Treatment in Traumatic Brain Injury

Oct. 11, 2024 — New research indicates that a novel method could result in a new treatment option in an area of medicine that currently has few, if any, treatment ...

Lab-Grown Spines Unlock Safer Treatment for Women With Epilepsy, Study Suggests

Oct. 1, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant step towards enabling women with epilepsy safer access to a common and highly effective anti-seizure medication. ...

Immunotherapy for Gum Disease? Study in Mice Shows Promise

Sep. 30, 2024 — Targeting the immune system could prevent or treat periodontal disease (PD), a common but serious disease of the gums, according to new ...

How Are Stretch Reflexes Modulated During Voluntary Movement?

Sep. 26, 2024 — How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? This paper cuts directly into critical debates about how the ancient spinal cord and the relatively new human ...

Building Better Bone Grafts

Sep. 26, 2024 — Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the patient's own bone for tooth implantation and to repair and ...

Cow Slime Can Help Disc Herniation Patients After Surgery, Research Shows

Sep. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed a gel inspired by cow slime for patients suffering from disc herniation. By adding the mucin gel immediately after surgery, it is possible to create a protective barrier ...

Blackcurrant Supplementing Mitigates Postmenopausal Bone Loss, Study Finds

Sep. 17, 2024 — With aging comes bone density loss, especially in post-menopausal women. A new study finds that supplementing with blackcurrant can ameliorate a host of conditions, including postmenopausal bone loss ...

Multiple Ways to Evolve Tiny Knee Bone Could Have Helped Humans Walk Upright

Sep. 11, 2024 — The evolution of bones in primates' knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk ...

Novel Bone Cancer Therapy Has 99% Success Rate, Tests Show

Sep. 10, 2024 — Bioactive glasses, a filling material which can bond to tissue and improve the strength of bones and teeth, has been combined with gallium to create a potential treatment for bone cancer. Tests in ...

Researchers Discover That Sustained Neck Exertions Change the Spine and Muscles, Causing Pain

Sep. 4, 2024 — Using high-precision X-ray imaging to track spine movements during neck exertion tasks, researchers discovered that sustained neck exertions cause muscle fatigue that then exaggerate the cervical ...

Novel Immunotherapy Improves Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury

Sep. 4, 2024 — Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had improved recovery from ...

Blood Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Transform Bone Marrow Transplants

Sep. 3, 2024 — Researchers have made a world first breakthrough into creating blood stem cells that closely resemble those in the human body. And the discovery could soon lead to personalized treatments for ...

Mechanisms of How Morphine Relieves Pain Mapped out

Aug. 29, 2024 — Researchers describe the neural processes behind how morphine relieves pain. This is valuable knowledge because the drug has such serious side ...

Zebrafish Use Surprising Strategy to Regrow Spinal Cord

Aug. 15, 2024 — A new study maps out a detailed atlas of all the cells involved in regenerating the zebrafish spinal cord. In an unexpected finding, the researchers showed that survival and adaptability of the ...

Exciting Advance in Stem Cell Therapy

Aug. 13, 2024 — A new technique for mechanically manipulating stem cells could lead to new stem cell treatments, which have yet to fulfill their therapeutic ...

White Matter May Aid Recovery from Spinal Cord Injuries

Aug. 2, 2024 — Scientists are focusing on a previously understudied part of the brain and spinal cord -- white matter. Their discoveries could lead to treatments that restore nerve activity through the targeted ...

Surprising Finding in Glioblastomas

July 31, 2024 — Glioblastomas are highly aggressive, usually incurable brain tumors. If all therapeutic options are exhausted, patients have an average life expectancy of less than two years. Now researchers have ...

'Dancing Molecules' Heal Cartilage Damage

July 26, 2024 — New therapy uses synthetic nanofibers to mimic the natural signaling of a protein that is crucial for cartilage formation and maintenance. Researchers found that intensifying the motion of molecules ...

Staying Hip to Orthopedic Advances: Comparing Traditional and New Hip Replacement Stems

July 24, 2024 — Surgeons compared traditional and new fully hydroxyapatite-coated hip replacement stems. They found the new stems offer larger contact areas, while traditional ones preserve bone density long-term. ...

Brain-Heart Axis: Strokes Change Epigenetics of Immune System

July 23, 2024 — A stroke not only causes acute damage to the brain, but can also have long-term health implications for other organs -- such as the heart. Researchers have worked on the hypothesis that the high rate ...

Research Shows Protein Isoform Inhibitors May Hold the Key to Making Opioids Safer

July 16, 2024 — Researchers have identified a new way to make opioids safer, increasing the pain-relieving properties of opioids while decreasing unwanted side effects through the spinal inhibition of a Heat shock ...

New Ways to Study Spinal Cord Malformations in Embryos

July 12, 2024 — Scientists have successfully created mechanical force sensors directly in the developing brains and spinal cords of chicken embryos, which they hope will improve understanding and prevention of birth ...

Engineers' Probe Could Help Advance Treatment for Spinal Cord Disease, Injury

July 11, 2024 — Neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal cord neurons in free-moving mice, a feat that could lead to the development of better treatments for spinal cord disease and ...

Drugs That Kill 'Zombie' Cells May Benefit Some Older Women, but Not All

July 2, 2024 — Drugs that selectively kill senescent cells may benefit otherwise healthy older women but are not a 'one-size-fits-all' remedy, Mayo Clinic researchers have found. Specifically, these drugs ...

New Device Inspired by Python Teeth Doubles Strength of Rotator Cuff Repairs

June 28, 2024 — Researchers have developed a python-tooth-inspired device as a supplement to current rotator cuff suture repair, and found that it nearly doubled repair strength. Their biomimetic approach following ...

How Old Is Your Bone Marrow?

June 21, 2024 — Our bone marrow the fatty, jelly-like substance inside our bones is an unseen powerhouse quietly producing 500 billion new blood cells every day. That process is driven by hematopoietic stem cells ...