Musculoskeletal
News on in vitro diagnostics for musculoskeletal disorders.
Blood-Based Protein Markers Help Predict Who Will Develop Knee Osteoarthritis
Researchers found six proteins that could predict knee osteoarthritis years ahead of time by profiling serum proteins in individuals who did or did not go on to develop the condition.
Skeletal Muscle Cell Atlas Reveals Age-Related Shifts in Gene Expression, Cell Types
Researchers profiled expression patterns in individual cells from skeletal muscle samples taken from younger and older humans and mice.
GWAS of UK Biobank Participants Reveals Genetic Loci Linked to Human Skeletal Formation
An AI-enabled study of X-ray images of 39,000 UK Biobank and GWAS sheds light on how humans evolved to be bipedal.
Hand Condition Contributors Include Variants Passed Down From Neanderthals
Researchers identified dozens of variants associated with Dupuytren's disease, nicknamed "Viking disease," including three risk variants originating in Neanderthal sequences.
Single-Cell, Spatial Genomics Studies Unravel Development of Fetal Spinal Cord
The findings, based on single-cell and spatial gene expression analysis of fetal spinal cord samples, could aid the development of spinal cord disease models.