Building bone from cartilage
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
A person has a tumor removed from her femur. A soldier is struck by an improvised explosive device and loses a portion of his tibia. A child undergoes chemotherapy for osteosarcoma but part of the bone dies as a result. Every year, millions of Americans sustain fractures that don't heal or lose bone that isn't successfully grafted.Orthopaedic researchers have just found a very promising, novel way to regenerate bone.