🦴🔬#Osteocyte – the master orchestrator of #bone #remodeling. ~42 billion in the average adult human skeleton, #osteocytes make up ~90–95% of all #cells within bone, interconnected by ~3.7 trillion dendritic projections with an estimated, total end-to-end length of 175,000 km🔍

🚨Dancing Osteocytes!💃🏻🕺🏻~90–95% of all cells in adult bone are #osteocytes interconnected by a vast network of #canaliculi. They play a key role in maintaining #bone health by sensing mechanical loading and orchestrating remodelling! 🦴🔎🔬

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I'm a researcher investigating mineralised biological tissues using various forms of #microscopy 🔬 with complementary #spectroscopy and #crystallography. I'm interested in #bone and #osteocytes 🦴, #teeth 🦷, #biominerals 💎, #bacteria 🦠, #snails 🐌, #lichen 🌿, #trees 🌲, and more.

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