The world of non-surgical orthopedic medicine took a collective gasp recently when stem cell researchers announced the discovery of the molecular agent responsible for generating the entire skeleton in your body: The Human Skeletal Stem Cell (hSSC).
The world of non-surgical orthopedic medicine took a collective gasp recently when stem cell researchers announced the discovery of the molecular agent responsible for generating the entire skeleton in your body: The Human Skeletal Stem Cell (hSSC).
While aging on Earth is a huge problem in our bones, it takes on stellar proportions in space where zero gravity unleashes havoc on the human skeleton, in a similar fashion to degenerative bone diseases like osteoporosis which makes bones weak and brittle as we age.