It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too, and some change in ways that weaken the very structure of our bones.

Figure 1. (a) Schematic representation of the (a) bone structure and its composition ranging from nanometers to micrometres and (b) development of biomimetic scaffolds containing the various steps for ...

Human cortical bone can withstand compressive loads near 170 megapascals before failure, yet it weighs roughly one-third as ...

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