Identical 12-year-old twin sisters with the same genetic mutation have ended up with very different lives, with the muscles of one being transformed into bone while the other is developing normally.

Hitting 50 brings plenty of unwelcome changes, but losing muscle mass and bone density doesn't have to be one of them.

When Sarah Baldassaro turned 50, she took stock of her health and began working with a fitness coach on strength training, a ...

There is a high demand for safe and long-lasting medications to treat bone loss, known medically as osteoporosis. In Germany, around six million people – mostly women – are affected by this widespread ...

BALTIMORE - Using a relatively new technology called RNA interference to turn off genes that regulate cell differentiation, University of Pittsburgh researchers have demonstrated they can increase the ...

Why weighted walking turns your cardio session into weight training.

An international collaboration led by scientists mainly at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) , Japan, has found that bone and muscle mass are regulated by the altered gravity. The ...

This article was produced for Ipsen by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's board of editors. Additional bone growth, or heterotopic ossification, is visible ...

When bones break and there is extreme tissue loss--such as after a car accident or a battlefield injury--current treatments don't often lead to effective healing. But certain stem cells from skeletal ...