Growth plates are areas of cartilage found at the ends of long bones. They play a role in the bone growth of children and teens. An injury to a growth plate can affect the development of a bone. While ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

Notch signalling is a highly conserved cell-to-cell communication pathway that orchestrates cell fate determination, proliferation and differentiation within the skeletal system. Activation occurs ...