Although the weather was very Texas-unlike, with fog, clouds and even intense rain, the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston was the site for this year's annual meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, where investigators from across the world came to present the latest findings in bone science. Four days of oral and poster presentations encompassing over 1,500 papers discussing a great variety of subjects including preclinical and clinical research aimed at improving the treatment of bone diseases such as osteoporosis and other forms of bone frailty.