🧐 An 18th century hand-illustrated page from an Ottoman Turk dental book showing a molar infected with toothworms. As early as Babylonian times and lasting well into the eighteenth century, it was thought that a toothache was caused by worms 🐛

Ancient DNA reveals monozygotic newborn twins from the Upper Palaeolithic nature.com/articles/s4200…

Scientists are still deciphering all the ways that bone cells can signal other organs, and how they interpret and respond to molecular messages coming from elsewhere. ow.ly/M3Ym30scryB

How the hand bones change over time during childhood. I love this so much. #MedTwitter

Adolescent burials at the St Mary Magdalen leprosarium in Winchester, UK include locals, foreigners, and the youngest confirmed females with leprosy in the archaeological record. People may have traveled to this location specifically for leprosy care #AJBA doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.2…

Researchers with the #HumanCellAtlas consortium report a major feat: the creation of detailed maps of more than a million individual cells across 33 organs, representing the most comprehensive, cross-tissue cell atlases to date. Learn more in Science. ➡ fcld.ly/23zpp4g

R user: It's actually really easy once you are used to it.

Growing up Gravettian: Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence i... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Dr. April Nowell

nature.com/articles/s4159… What a cool paper! Looking forward to exploring this in our samples.

Is this: A) A stone with barnacles resembling an anatomically correct heart showing how cool nature is Or B) Specimen from an individual who didn't cry watching The Notebook

Prehistoric child’s amputation is oldest surgery of its kind nature.com/articles/d4158…

Exploring adolescence as a key life history stage in bioarchaeology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

This is what baby jellyfish look like: #biology

Exciting paper on the discovery of the earliest known evidence for surgery - an individual from Borneo who, probably as a child, had their lower left leg successfully amputated, at least 31,000 years ago! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Perfect ahead of the next #artemis and #DARTMission news. By Nikita Gill.

Dunn Lab has a new correspondence article out describing an updated set of results from our longitudinal analyses of time-varying childhood adversity and DNA methylation at age 7. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsg… @MGH_RI

It's out! Take home message: nutritional rickets is more that vitamin D deficiency. Dietary calcium *always* plays a role, sometimes a primary one. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Infancy, childhood, and puberty on the Silk Road revealed with isotopic analysis of incremental dentine | Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…

#PhDefended 😎