PRESENTER:'Long bones, such as your thigh bone, or femur, grow in length at either end, in regions called growth plates. Growth happens when cartilage cells increase in number in these growth plates.

Exposure to blue light, like that from smartphones or tablets, may accelerate bone growth and bone age, leading to early ...

As children grow and develop, long bones such as the femur progressively elongate at each end. These growing ends – areas of smooth, elastic cartilage known as ‘growth plates’ – eventually solidify ...

Most bones in our body contain bone marrow, but long bones, such as arms and legs ... Not only did the skull bone marrow and vasculature grow substantially with age, but the hematopoietic stem ...