Flip open any biology textbook and you're bound to see a complicated diagram of the inner workings of a cell, with its internal scaffolding, the cytoskeleton, and how it maintains a cell's shape. Yet the fundamental question remains, which came first: the shape, or the skeleton? Now a research team has the answer: both.

1 Dec 2008

The Knox County Sheriff's Department is trying to piece together a mystery surrounding skeletal remains found Wednesday, Nov. 26, on some Midway Road property in East Knox County, deputies say.

1 Dec 2008

Bone growth is controlled in the gut through serotonin, the same naturally present chemical used by the brain to influence mood, appetite and sleep, according to a new discovery. Until now, the skeleton was thought to control bone growth and serotonin was known as a neurotransmitter acting in the brain. This insight could transform how osteoporosis is treated by giving doctors a way to increase ...

1 Dec 2008

Trutap , a leading UK mobile startup which made the TechCrunch 40 list in 2007, is letting go almost 80% of its 30 staff after failing to hit its window for a second round of funding. A skeleton staff will keep the social apps Java application for mobiles available prior to a sale or new investment, only a month after its re-launch. The startup was orphaned after its first investor Tudor ...

1 Dec 2008

North Korea has followed through on promises to severely restrict crossings of its border with South Korea. The North has curtailed travel to joint North-South cooperation zones and reduced South Korean staffing there to skeleton levels. VOA's Kurt Achin has more from Seoul.

1 Dec 2008

The few monuments to victims of clergy sex abuse that exist -- including a 'healing garden' in Oakland and an engraved millstone in Iowa -- unsettle victims and Catholic officials alike. Oakland's new Cathedral of Christ the Light stretches skyward, sheathed in gleaming glass that reveals a delicate skeleton of wood and steel.

30 Nov 2008