Tissue Engineering

New method can grow bone for grafts within a patient's body

Published in Health and Medicine Week, August 15th, 2005

An international team of biomedical engineers 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 at a different location.

The research, which is based on a dramatic departure from the current practice in tissue engineering, is described in a paper titled "In vivo engineering of organs: the bone bioreactor" published online by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"We have shown that we can grow predictable volumes of bone on demand," said V. Prasad Shastri, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University who led...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2005-08-15)

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