Analysis of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton shows that portions of the human spinal structure which enable walking motions developed millions of years earlier than previously thought. (CN) – ...

Nivalon Medical Technologies Inc. has successfully produced the world's first fully patient-specific, motion-preserving spinal implant built entirely without metal, using AI-driven design and advanced ...

The fossilized piece of a cheek bone was spotted in a chunk of sandstone sticking out of the dirt in the scorching badlands of northeastern Ethiopia. Zeresenay Alemseged knew almost immediately that ...

From shoulders to skulls, learn how our bones made humans unique in this excerpt from “Skeleton Keys” by Riley Black. The following is an excerpt of Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Riley ...

A two-million-year-old fossil could change what we thought we knew about one of our ancient human relatives. A few vertebrae from the lower back of an Australopithecus sediba reveal that the hominin ...

Amanda Smith: And more on the clever adaptations of the human spine later in The Body Sphere. But of course plenty can go wrong with your back, heaps of us get back pain, especially lower back pain.

Bones are amazing. People are often surprised to learn that bone is a living tissue. It is widely understood that our bones have the ability to repair themselves after breaks and fractures. But they ...

Generalized disorders of cartilage and bone have been referred to as skeletal dysplasias, whereas those that affect an individual bone or group of bones have been referred to as dysostoses; however, ...

Analysis of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, including vertebrae, neck and rib cage. The findings indicate that portions of ...

For more than 3 million years, Selam lay silent and still. Eager to tell her story, the almost perfect fossil skeleton of a 2 1/2 year-old toddler was discovered at Dikika, Ethiopia -- and she had a ...