The Jordan Times

Symbolism, societal roles: Analising Shubayqa’s prehistoric bone artifacts

AMMAN — Shubayqa, a site located some 130 kilometres northeast of Amman, represents a hunter-gatherer spot and as such it draws attention of scholarly teams. Animal bones were used by prehistoric ...
Nature

Assessment of Bone Quality by Quantitative Ultrasound of Proximal Phalanges of the Hand and Fracture Rate in Children and Adolescents with Bone and Mineral Disorders

DXA has been widely accepted as a noninvasive method for BMD measurement in adults as well as in pediatric subjects (1). An important shortcoming of DXA is that it measures an areal density, so that ...
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Quantitative bone ultrasonography at phalanges in patients with high-risk monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS) and myeloma treated with zoledronic acid

Effect of the green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on growth and IL-6 signalling pathways in malignant plasma cells No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO ...
BBC Science/Nature

New dinosaur gives bird wing clue

A new dinosaur unearthed in western China has shed light on the evolution from dinosaur hands to the wing bones in today's birds. The fossil, from about 160 million years ago, has been named ...
BBC

Skeleton - Hands and feet

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