For most broken bones, bone cells regrow on their own while patients wear a cast or brace to keep the injury steady. But for complex or severe fractures, surgeons may intervene by placing grafts or ...

Our fat tissue could be used to make our bones regrow, with scientists successfully using adipose cells to repair spinal compression fractures. It could change how breaks are treated and improve bone ...

Egg shells could be used to help grow human bone fragments to repair broken or chipped bones. Bones grow inside the body on a kind of scaffold called the extracellular matrix, which helps guide and ...

From left to right, biomedical engineering doctoral student Ethan Gerhard; co-corresponding author and Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering Su Yan; first author and biomedical ...

For most broken bones, bone cells regrow on their own while patients wear a cast or brace to keep the injury steady. But for complex or severe fractures, surgeons may intervene by placing grafts or ...