Our fat tissue could be used to make our bones regrow, with scientists successfully using adipose cells to repair spinal ...

Although most broken bones can be mended with a firm cast and a generous measure of tender loving care, more complicated fractures require treatments like bone grafting. Researchers have now created ...

In a pilot study of the effect of electrical stimulation on healing bone grafts, an animal study with adult male rats, Garima K. Talwar, DDS, a postgraduate student at the University of Maryland ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BMTI), a biotechnology company specializing in the development and commercialization of innovative bioactive products to ...

Electrical stimulation is an alternative therapy that has grown in popularity in recent years, specifically for bone healing. Devices such as bone stimulators, are often used for fractures that have ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Durham-based Bioventus has come up with a new bone graft substitute that it says is easier for doctors to handle, promotes healing in patients, and provides potential cost ...

A team at Stanford School of Medicine has developed a mouse model of osteonecrosis (bone death) to study and treat the disease (Scientific Reports 7 14254). The scientists induced osteonecrosis in the ...

Researchers have developed a much needed alternative to bone grafts that could help alleviate the long-term hospitalization, disability, and considerable costs to the health system associated with non ...