Dr. Cara Wall-Scheffler, Professor of Biology, and collaborators at Charles University in the Czech Republic (where Dr. Wall-Scheffler was a Fulbright Fellow), published a new study, "Bone health: Age-related changes in diaphyseal structural properties among European Holocene humans during the last 9000 years", in Science Advances. This study analyzed the largest skeletal sample available worldwide (comprising nearly two thousand European skeletons spanning from the Neolithic to recent periods), to better understand factors contributing to healthy bone aging. Among the study's key findings are that bone aging varies between different bones and sexes, and that healthy bone aging in adulthood is dependent in part on how how thick bones grow during adolescence.
Posted: Friday, September 5, 2025