Research Topics Bone Module
See the movies
The following movies explore these themes are available for planetarium domes and for home DVD:
Welcome to the bone module! Here you can learn about the biology of the bone, the extraordinary tissue that is the bone marrow and how it makes stem cells, plus how regenerative medicine has the potential to help bones heal faster and more completely.
Every single person has a skeleton made up of lots of bones (206 of them to be exact!) These bones keep your body in the right shape, allow you to move the way you do, and protect the organs that make the rest of your body work. If you didn't have bones, you would just be a pile of mush on the ground!
Mouse over the skeleton below, how many of these major bones can you name?
Bones are a very important part of your body, so let's learn about them by clicking on one of the links below:
Biology of the bone - Learn about normal bone growth, how bone grows along with you while you are growing up. This would be a good place to start learning!
Bone fractures - How bones break, and what happens to them when they do.
Modern medicine for the bone - How doctors fix broken bones and help cure other bone diseases.
Regenerative medecine for the bone - How regenerative medicine helps bone heal faster and better.