Comment on bone

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cellular biology always reminds me how crazy animals are; how much time and how many generations animals must have taken to get here.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a robust system: when a bone is fractured and not straightened before healing, it will eventually get close to the right shape.

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  • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fraggle Rock helped me understand this part of cell bio (osteoclasts/blasts).

    In the underground caverns of your skeleton, a perfect symbiotic ecosystem exists between two distinct groups: the Osteoblasts (the Doozers) and the Osteoclasts (the Fraggles). Just as in Fraggle Rock, their survival depends on a continuous cycle of building and eating, ensuring the structural integrity of their world

    Like the industrious Doozers, osteoblasts are obsessed with construction.

    The osteoclasts are the carefree Fraggles of this system. They roam the bone surface looking for old, damaged, or unnecessary structures to “snack” on.

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• marzhall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No war but clast war

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