Columbia University uses technological innovation to study bone structure

Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 16:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Medical Centre announced today the results of the first study comparing bone structure in Chinese-American women to Caucasian women. The report, just presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society's annual meeting at Long Beach, CA, found that pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have far greater bone strength than their Caucasian counterparts, as determined by a breakthrough technological advance...

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