Study coaxes clays to make human bone
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 23:00
in Health & Medicine
Whether damaged by injury, disease or age, your body as an adult can’t create new bone, but maybe science can. Researchers are making strides in tissue engineering, designing scaffolds that may lead to ways to regenerate bone. Scientists have developed a novel method that uses nanosized clays to make scaffolds to mineralize bone minerals such as hydroxyapatite.