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Bioengineered Bone Grafts

October 23, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Bioengineered bone grafts
At the New York Stem Cell Foundation, researchers use an innovative process to produce bone grafts in small [MORE]

Flexoelectricity in Bone Repair

March 20, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Bone Fracture
A research group in Barcelona Spain has observed that tiny bone fractures emit a low voltage electrical field that [MORE]

More on 3-D Printed Hard Implant

October 3, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

3-D Cranial Implant
Since the US FDA first approved 3-D printed implants for clinical use in 2013, hundreds of procedures have [MORE]

Custom Bioreactor for Growing Bones

August 9, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Lab-Grown Living Bone
Jawbone defects have been corrected using bone tissue taken from elsewhere in the patient’s body and implanted where [MORE]

Bridging Bone Regeneration with a 3-D Printed Implant

March 8, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Manolis Papastavrou with-3D Bone
Using a material called beta-tricalcium phosphate for 3-D printing, and freezing the product in different areas, scientists [MORE]

Nanoparticles for Bone Regeneration

February 9, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

MicoRNAs
Oral surgery sometimes requires implantation of foreign material (e.g. cow bone) to rebuild a jaw. Dentistry researchers at the University [MORE]

Nanowire Implants for Controlled Release of Drugs

September 29, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Polypyrrole Microstructure
Pyrrole is a naturally occurring aromatic compound, originally discovered in coal tar, but later found in a variety of [MORE]

Customized Vascularized Bone Implants

September 22, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

For the past five years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering in Wurzburg, Germany has been coordinating research in several [MORE]

Engineering a Controlled-Growth Bone Scaffold

November 18, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

MIT Bone Growth
MIT chemical engineers have created a bone-growth scaffold that fits in an injured area and slowly releases bone [MORE]

First 3-D Printed Vertebra Implanted

November 4, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

3D Printed Vertebra
The list of medical applications for 3-D printing seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. This piece [MORE]

3-D Printing During Surgery, the BioPen

July 22, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Biopen
“[A] new BioPen developed at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia . . . . is designed to let [MORE]

Keeping Stem Cells in Place

July 15, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Hydrogel Polymers and Stem Cells
Encasing stem cells in hydrogel before injecting them at a site of bone repair keeps the [MORE]

3-D Printed Pelvis Implanted

May 5, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

3-D Printed Pelvis
While personalized medicine usually refers to molecular marvels, surgery claims priority in that genre—separating the person from the [MORE]

Bone Patches with Synthetic DNA

January 14, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Bio=patch for Dental Implants
With aging come both changes in chewing habits and the likelihood of periodontal disease, resulting [MORE]