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The localized treatment may speed up therapy solutions for patients with osteoporosis.

Orthopedic researchers have developed a promising new nanoparticle hydrogel that can be injected directly into bones weakened by osteoporosis. In a study recently published in the journal Bone, experts say that their novel solution could help patients resist potentially fatal osteoporotic fractures. Osteoporosis is an incurable disease that eventually affects an estimated 50 percent of women and 25 percent of men over the age of 50. Weakened and brittle bones often result in osteoporotic fractures, many of which can pose major longterm complications, some of which are deadly. But while existing medication regimens either decrease old bone resorption rates or support new bone generation, these treatments can take as long as a year before providing tangible results.

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Rediscovering science: New knowledge hidden in old data

What if the knowledge that could fuel the next scientific breakthrough has simply been forgotten in an old graph or table? Valuable scientific insights may already exist across decades of published experiments, yet remain buried in old research papers, waiting to be rediscovered. Researchers from the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) at Tohoku University have investigated ways to transform old data into new discoveries. In a review published in the journal Chemical Communications, they showed how extracting knowledge from past experiments and scientific literature is fundamentally reshaping research in chemistry and materials science.