Scientists grow real human bones

[The Straight Story]

Scientists grow real human bones


HOUSTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- University of Houston scientists, studying the best way to prevent bone fractures, say they have created a process that grows human bones in tissue culture.

The researchers, led by Associate Professor Mark Clarke, said the best way to stop fractures is to stop bones from reaching the point where they might break. But understanding the process of how bones form and mature has been challenging.

Now Clarke and his colleagues say they can use their new process to investigate how bones form and grow.

"We have manufactured a structure that has no synthetic components," Clarke said. "It's all made by the two cell types bones start with inside the body. What you end up with is a piece of material that is identical to newly-formed, human, trabecular bone, including its mineral components, its histology and its growth factor content."

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/12/14/Scientists-grow-real-human-bones/UPI-63201260824662/

Guys like me grow bones all the time...oh wait... :rofl:

[trumad]

1. Well good..

Maybe they can grow a back-bone for the Senate.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. You win this thread already...

:hi:

Watch out now, though. Man made DNA, artificial intelligence.. and now growing bones. It won't be long before we are "creating man" to populate another planet. We will be "GOD", then our astronauts/scientists will tell those beings what a wonderful place in "heaven" they will be taken home to when they die..

:evilgrin:

[rucky]

2. These don't shrink in the tub. n/t

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Any chance we can order some spines for a few Senators I can think of?

[jobycom]

5. Wow, how did they stand up before?

[Odin2005]

6. Good, some Dem congresspeople need new backbones.

[apocalypsehow]

7. Every time I see Megan Fox, I do the same thing. n/t.