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It's all in the wrapping: Mimicking periosteum to heal traumatic bone injury

A manmade package filled with nature's bone-building ingredients delivers the goods over time and space to heal serious bone injuries faster than products currently available, Cleveland researchers have found.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lying and sitting more comfortably

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone confined to a wheelchair or a bed has to deal with numerous complications. Frequently, they suffer from bedsores or decubitus ulcers as physicians call them. Bony prominences, such ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover new genetic immune disorder in children

Your immune system plays an important function in your health—it protects you against viruses, bacteria, and other toxins that can cause disease. In autoinflammatory diseases, however, the immune system goes awry, causing ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Researchers use natural and artificial sheaths to mend traumatic bone loss

A husband and wife research team has found a way to use the sleeve-like cover on bone to heal serious bone injuries faster and more simply than current methods. And they've developed an artificial sleeve that spurs fast healing ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors Use Patient's Own Stem Cells to Grow Facial Bone

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of-its kind procedure, physicians have used stem cells taken from the fat tissue of a 14-year-old boy and combined them with growth protein and donor tissue to grow viable cheek bones in the teen. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cells at root of antlers' branching

The ability to regenerate lost body parts is unevenly distributed among higher organisms. Among vertebrates, some amphibians are able to replace lost limbs completely, while mammals are unable to regenerate ...

Biology /

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Team IDs new way to grow, repair bone

An international team of biomedical engineers, including several from MIT, has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in one part of the body and use it to repair damaged bone ...

Other Sciences /

created Aug 03, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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