Roland Brosch and colleagues report whole-genome sequencing of tubercle bacilli with smooth colony morphology, also known as Mycobacterium canetti and/or Mycobacterium prototuberculosis, obtained ...

The progressive degeneration of articular cartilage is an underlying problem in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA) as well as in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammation arthritides. It ...

Water distribution of human osteoarthritic articular cartilage has been characterized using terahertz time domain spectroscopy. The evaluation of water content in cartilage tissue can be helpful to ...

Previous studies have shown that NaOH-treated two-dimensional PLGA films enhanced chondrocyte functions. In this in vitro study, a three-dimensional PLGA scaffold was fabricated and treated with NaOH.

Background Physical examination tests for hip dysfunction and injury of the strongest diagnostic accuracy were identified in a recent systematic review with meta-analysis in BJSM . These tests are ...

In 1926, Harvard anthropologist Earnest Hooton, the leading racial typologist in the world, listed 24 anatomical traits, such as “the presence or absence of a postglenoid tubercle and a ...