Millions of people each year undergo painful procedures to repair damaged or missing bone. Whether caused by injury, aging or ...

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A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur - the longest and strongest bone in the body - that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real femur.

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 ...

During a complicated bone surgery, every second matters. The longer a wound is open, the more likely it is to become infected and injured. Now picture this: Surgeons can now print a new piece of bone ...

We’ve come a long way from the Vacanti mouse. Back in the mid-90s, Charles Vacanti and other researchers experimented with cartilage regeneration and, with the help of a biodegradable mold and bovine ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...