Our body is held together with tissues that connect different structures of the body together. Tissues and muscles need to be aligned in a way that there is no discrepancy in the outcomes of activity ...

Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) is a type of autoimmune disease. It can cause symptoms like joint pain and swelling, skin symptoms, and more. The exact prevalence of UCTD is unknown, ...

Classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (previously known as EDS type I/II) is an inheritable connective tissue disorder that involves skin, tendons, ligaments, and, in some cases, also blood vessels. Most ...

In today's episode, Dr. George Pins of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute talks to Adam about human connective tissue and cutting-edge engineering efforts to ...

With improved resolution, tissue-specific molecular markers and precise timing scientsists have possibly overturned a long-standing assumption about the origin of embryonic cells that give rise to ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine establish an ad hoc committee to review certain heritable conditions related to ...

The knee is a meeting place for four bones — the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shinbone), fibula (calf bone), and patella (kneecap). It requires several ligaments to keep these bones in place and ...

New research suggests that more sugar in the body could damage the elastic proteins that help us breathe and pump blood. The findings could have health implications for diabetics, who have high ...