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Bone-eating 'zombie' worms drill with acid
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NASA – how space exploration affects astronauts' bones
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Elephant's sixth 'toe' discovered
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Elephant's sixth toe

 

Vitamin E may be bad for bones
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Vitamin E in Almonds

 

Screening test hope in painful bone disease
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Maureen Owen 1927-2011

It is very sad to report that Maureen Owen, a pioneering researcher and leader in the field of bone biology, died peacefully in Oxford aged 83 on 5th April 2011. Maureen was an Honorary Member of the Bone Research Society and was an extraordinary mentor to many.

A tribute to Maureen’s life and work, kindly provided by Jim Triffitt and Graham Russell, can be downloaded here.

  Maureen Owen

Arms and the Man

At the BRS-BSMB joint meeting in London in 2009, Lewis Wolpert asked ‘Does anyone have any idea why our arms are the same length?’.

No answers yet - but Lewis sets out the intriguing problem of symmetric limb growth in this short article, published in the September 2010 issue of PloS Biology

  Lewis Wolpert

In Memoriam Dr. Charles H. Turner 1961-2010