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7 Orthopedic Breakthroughs You Should Know About
August 22, 2014
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1. A Bone Growth Breakthrough from MITChemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors that release slowly over time, inducing the body to rapidly form new bone that looks and behaves just like original tissue.The new implanted tissue could change the face of treatment for bone injuries and various defects that stunt the growth of bones in the body.Read full Qmed story.This picture from MIT researchers is a scanning electron micrograph of a porous, nanostructured poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) membrane. The membrane is coated with a polyelectrolyte (PEM) multilayer coating that releases growth factors to promote bone repair.
7 Orthopedic Breakthroughs You Should Know About
There have been plenty of recent breakthroughs in the fields of orthopedics and prosthetics, from new engineered scaffolds for regenerating bone to an actual FDA-approved bionic arm. Read on to find out more.
Chris Newmarker is senior editor of MPMN and Qmed. Follow him on Twitter at @newmarker.
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