Science news articles about 'brittle bone disease'

Vitamin D is essential to strong bones. Inadequate vitamin D can lead to osteoporosis, a brittle bone disease. Recently, researchers have found that vitamin D may help reduce ...

... tissue looked like a sheet of paper, diseased collagen tissue would look more like a ... tissue. The different forms of severity in brittle bone disease correlate with a particular genetic mutation; ...

The weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single amino acid in the ...

... rare genetic condition known as brittle bone disease," said Dr. Anna Spagnoli, associate ... manmade materials to try to patch up a broken bone," Spagnoli said. Granero-Molto and other colleagues led ...