Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space shuttle Endeavour prepares for its return to earth, researchers at Harvard Medical School eagerly await the data of an experiment they designed to test the effects of weightlessness on bone and muscle tissue...
Scientists already know that bone cells lose mass when they must live under the influence of the small amount of gravity in space, says Gerstenfeld who is associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. But the reasons behind the loss of mass are unknown, he says...
...William J. Landis, associate professor oforthopedic surgery at Boston Children's Hospital,says he hopes the experiment will provide insightinto the causes for the loss of bone and muscletissue in patients who are bed-ridden or sufferingform osteoporosis. The bones of patients withosteoporosis become weak and break easily...
Morey-Holton says the experiment will give"insight into factors involved in bone formation...
...Landis and Gerstenfeld have one of the bestcharacterized bone cell culture systems forlooking at factors that influence cell maturationand mineralization, "Morey-Holton says...