Human Bone Grown From Stem Cells (Biloine Young @ OTW)
Bonus BioGroup website
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Scientists at the Israeli biotechnology company Bonus BioGroup Ltd. have grown human bone from stem cells. Using stem cells taken from fat, they grew two-inch-long sections of fully formed living human bone in about a month, according to British science writer Richard Gray in a June 10 article in The Telegraph. The stem cells are grown into bone on a scaffold inside a "bioreactor"—an automated machine that provides the right conditions to encourage the ce...
