Ralph Mobbs, a neurosurgeon at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, made medical history in late 2015 when he successfully replaced two vertebrae with custom made prosthesis. The patient, in his ...

Tumour cells tend to migrate to the vertebrae rather than to long bones, but the mechanism underlying this has been unclear. It emerges that the stem cells from which vertebrae are derived make a ...

Differences in numbers of vertebrae are most extreme in mammals which do not rely on running and leaping, such as those adapted to suspensory locomotion like apes and sloths, a team of anthropologists ...

The vertebrae that make up the cervical spine are the smallest seven within the spinal column. These bones give the neck structure, support the skull, and protect the spinal cord, among other ...

The muscles of the lower back help stabilize, rotate, flex, and extend the spinal column, which is a bony tower of 24 vertebrae that gives the body structure and houses the spinal cord. The spinal ...

Snakes, fish, chickens, and humans all begin life in much the same way. Early in their transformation from an amorphous blob of cells into a fully developed animal, growing cells pinch off into a ...

Roughly 500 years ago, vertebrae were arranged on sticks in Peruvian tombs. C. Oshea / Antiquity Publications Ltd., Bongers et al. Nearly 200 sticks strung up with human vertebrae have been discovered ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Snap is making a big bet on AR shopping. The parent company of Snapchat has bought Vertebrae, a company that lets ...

Boldy James is in stable condition after the rapper was involved in a car accident earlier this week in Detroit that left him with a broken vertebrae that required surgery. A rep for James confirmed ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...