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Implants made of your blood could repair broken bone
The body has a remarkable ability to heal itself when injured, but of course it has its limits. Now scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a way to improve on the natural process, making implants created from a patient’s own blood to regenerate injuries, even repairing bone.
Now scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a way to improve on the natural process, making implants created from a patient’s own blood to regenerate injuries, even repairing bone. It starts with blood forming a solid structure called a regenerative hematoma (RH), a complex microenvironment that summons key cells, molecules and proteins that regenerate the tissue. The team demonstrated that the new materials could perform the usual RH functions, such as recruiting healing cells and generating growth factors, while also being easy to assemble and manipulate.
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