We Can Now Grow Human Bones From Stem Cells!

Scientists may have figured out how to grow bones in a lab, what does this mean for the future of implants?

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We’re Not That Far From Being Able to Grow Human Bones in a Lab
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovat...
“‘Grow your own bone’ might not sound like much of a business slogan, since even children do just that naturally. But EpiBone, a two-year-old company based in Harlem, New York, has adopted the slogan because it sees a big opportunity: Surgeons perform about a million bone grafts in the United States each year, either with the patient’s own bone tissue, necessitating two surgeries, or with synthetic or donated material, which a patient’s body sometimes rejects.”

3D-Printed 'HyperElastic Bone' Could Quickly Mend Breaks
https://www.seeker.com/3d-printed-hyp...
“A cheap and easy to make synthetic bone material has been shown to stimulate new bone growth when implanted in the spines of rats and a monkey's skull, researchers said. Human trials using the biomaterial, called Hyper-Elastic Bone (HB), could begin in the next five years, according to the research team from Northwestern University.”

Bone Growth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbod...
“The skeleton of a newborn baby is made up of more than 300 parts, most of which are made of cartilage. Over time, most of this cartilage turns into bone, in a process called ossification. As the baby grows, some of its bones fuse together to form bigger bones.”
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Written by: Lauren Ellis