POSTS TAGGED AS bones

DIY, Automated X-Rays

Automated and mobile X-ray device
Over half of the 206 bones of an adult human skeleton are in the hands and [MORE]

New X-Ray Technology Shows Microfractures

X-Ray image
CT images appear in gray scale, and consequently are insufficient for displaying microfractures in bones.  However, researchers at the [MORE]

Adjustable Length Artificial Hip

Adjustable length artificial hip
Hip prostheses can result in a leg that is a little too long or a little too [MORE]

Personalized Bones….in Three Weeks

Osteoarthritis in knees
This might be an arguable point—that regenerative medicine is the medical defining point of the early 21st century.  [MORE]

Ceramic Bone Screws

Scrails
When bone fractures have to be mended with screws or nails, surgeons usually use fasteners made of titanium or polymer. [MORE]

New Material for Bone Reconstruction

Shape Shifting Material for Bone
Some bone injuries are too big for simple fixes, even with autografting and bone putty.  To [MORE]

Printing New Bones

3-D Printed Skull
Tagline has included many stories about 3-D printing, but this piece has an imbedded video showing how [MORE]

Growing Bones with Synthetic Silicate Nanoplatelets

With the march of the “baby boomers” into retirement and the medical problems of aging, innovations that ameliorate fractured [MORE]

Fusion Protein in Bone Regeneration

Fusion Protein
Bioengineers in Japan have fused two osteogenic proteins—the collagen binding domain of fibronectin and a bone mineralization protein—and [MORE]

Human Bones Grown from Stem Cells in Fat

Bone grown from fat cells
Researchers at Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa) have used fat-derived mesenchymal (embryonic [MORE]

Printing 3D Bones

Replicate Bone
If you have to see something to believe it, be sure to check out the video at this [MORE]

Ultrasound Bone Healing

Angus Maclean, Orthopedic Surgeon
The now familiar ultrasound image of a baby in the womb derives from research Dr. Ian [MORE]

First Custom-Fit, Degradable Bone Implant

Researchers at the University Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute in Aachen, Germany have teamed up to create a [MORE]