Every day, hospitals around the world generate millions of computed tomography scans, and most of them contain a quiet, ...
When investigators recover human remains after a disaster, a plane crash, or years of exposure in a shallow grave, two of the ...
Learn more about menarche, a mark on an ancient femur bone, and how it can help us understand the reproductive beginnings of ancient women. A girl's first period transforms her body. It is a moment ...
A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur. The ...
Mechanical engineers designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The study, which focused on the middle section of ...
On December 22nd of 2023, a Vietnamese patient underwent hours-long surgery in order to remove part of his pelvis and femur, as per the usual treatment for bone cancer. What was special here was that ...
Brookbush Institute’s updated review of 25 studies finds that femur length cannot be reliably measured outside of medical imaging, varies far less between adults than commonly claimed, and demands ...