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Make no bones about it: How our bodies shift between making bones and breaking them down

Posted: 24 Feb 2022 06:10 AM PST

What determines the switch from bone formation to resorption has been unclear. Researchers show that intercellular communication via extracellular vesicles from bone-making osteoblasts is a key factor for this switch through a microRNA-mediated mechanism.