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April 27, 2005
UCLA Researchers Discover New Method to Generate Human Bone
I was researching some more on UCLA's website about the fusion project and I came across this article. It's absolutely amazing the work they've done on this. Basically they've found a way to tell the body to regrow bone where they want it to. This is some pretty cool stuff because it will allow you to fuse vertebra together with using the body's own ability to grow bone instead of cutting it from somewhere else or using metal decreasing the chances for infection. It also allows for other medical applications such as cleft palate repair and fracture healing as well. Of course it would be useful in military applications creating super soldiers with unnaturally strong bones.
Read more here.
Posted by ManDrake at April 27, 2005 8:41 PM
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