The femur is a type of long bone. Longer than it is wide, this type of bone has spongy bone tissue at both ends and a cavity filled with bone marrow in the shaft. Other types of bones include ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur — the longest and strongest bone in the body — that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur.

The spongy bone's thickness, volume and surface area can tell us a lot about how strong joint bones are. The work also didn’t look at modern human foragers to see if their increased activity ...

Scientists found the stem cells, which give rise to bones, cartilage and the spongy bone that harbors bone marrow, in fetal bones, adult bones and fat, researchers report online September 20 in Cell.