A scientific advance with some potentially important medical benefits. (HT: DG)
Dr Shai Meretzki, chief executive of Bonus BioGroup, with the human bones grown from stem cells
Scientists have grown human bone from stem cells in a laboratory.
The development opens the way for patients to have broken bones repaired or even replaced with entire new ones grown outside the body from a patient’s own cells.
The researchers started with stem cells taken from fat tissue. It took around a month to grow them into sections of fully-formed living human bone up to a couple of inches long.
The first trial in patients is on course to be conducted later this year, by an Israeli biotechnology company that has been working with academics on the technology.
This gives hope for many mutilated people on this world.
Exactly.