Breakdown of bone keeps blood sugar in check, new study finds

Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 11:07 in Health & Medicine

Researchers led by Columbia University Medical Center have discovered that the skeleton plays an important role in regulating blood sugar and have further illuminated how bone controls this process. The finding, published in Cell, is important because it may lead to more targeted drugs for type 2 diabetes.

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