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New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
Bones protect our insides, help us to move and even help make our blood.
Bones and texts showed how decades of strenuous hikes led to higher levels of osteoarthritis in workers’ knees and ankles in an ancient Egyptian village.
A rush of ancient DNA projects in Africa has presented the curators of archaeological skeletons with ethical issues because research requires the destruction of human bone.
If dietary calcium is in short supply, calcium is released from bone to maintain the critical level in the bloodstream needed for nerve and muscle function.
Studying how athletes’ bones contort during exercise is helping scientists understand which exercise is best for maintaining healthy bones as we age.
Here’s how scientists are seeking to turn the building blocks of life into the building blocks of … well, buildings.
It may have been a cultural tradition to use tempera paint that contained traces of milk on bodies according to a discovery at Sibudu Caves in KwaZulu Natal.
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Professor of Clinical Endocrinology, King's College London
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neuromuscular and Skeletal Physiology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Osteoarchaeology, Uppsala University
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Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Honorary Professor, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Diabetes and Endocrinology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Professor of Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Honorary, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Bioengineering, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor in Sport and Exercise Sciences & Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
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Head, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences; Professor of Medicine, Monash University