{"id":228617,"date":"2026-01-09T01:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/first-map-of-nerve-circuitry-in-bone-helps-physicians-identify-key-signals-for-bone-repair"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:18:15","slug":"first-map-of-nerve-circuitry-in-bone-helps-physicians-identify-key-signals-for-bone-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/first-map-of-nerve-circuitry-in-bone-helps-physicians-identify-key-signals-for-bone-repair","title":{"rendered":"First map of nerve circuitry in bone helps physicians identify key signals for bone repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-map-of-nerve-circuitry-in-bone-helps-physicians-identify-key-signals-for-bone-repair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the occupants of danger. But imagine if the device could transform into something that could fight the fire as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adr9608\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, a multi-institutional team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine has shown in mice that the body\u2019s \u201cpain alarms\u201d\u2015sensory neurons\u2014actually have such a dual function. In the event of a bone fracture, these nerves not only report the trauma, but they also morph into \u201creconstruction commanders\u201d that actively direct the cellular workforce to rebuild the skeleton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a house catches on fire, we assume that a smoke alarm inside will serve one purpose and one purpose only: warn the occupants of danger. But imagine if the device could transform into something that could fight the fire as well. In a new study in Science, a multi-institutional team led by researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}