Whether they're caused by injury, disease or other factors, missing sections of bone can be quite difficult to replace. A new ...

A combination of intermittent fasting and administering Wnt3a proteins to a bone injury can rejuvenate bone repair in aged mice.

Intermittent fasting combined with localized Wnt3a treatments has been shown to rejuvenate bone repair in older mice, ...

Tiny implantable sensors are helping to heal broken bones quicker. The devices allow data-enabled resistance training to speed up the natural healing process in lab rats, say American scientists.

Broken bones normally mend spontaneously if they are set firmly. A finger fracture typically requires three weeks for healing, while one can recover from broken legs in six to eight weeks.

and the link between angiogenesis -blood vessel formation- and bone healing has long been discussed by the scientific community, with several studies describing the impairment of bone healing ...