For most broken bones, bone cells regrow on their own while patients wear a cast or brace to keep the injury steady. But for complex or severe fractures, surgeons may intervene by placing grafts or ...

A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells ...

From left to right, biomedical engineering doctoral student Ethan Gerhard; co-corresponding author and Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering Su Yan; first author and biomedical ...

Our fat tissue could be used to make our bones regrow, with scientists successfully using adipose cells to repair spinal compression fractures. It could change how breaks are treated and improve bone ...

Researchers have developed a magnetic nanomaterial that can kill bone cancer cells and support bone regeneration at the same ...

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 ...

For most broken bones, bone cells regrow on their own while patients wear a cast or brace to keep the injury steady. But for complex or severe fractures, surgeons may intervene by placing grafts or ...