We Can Now Grow Human Bones From Stem Cells!
Scientists may have figured out how to grow bones in a lab, what does this mean for the future of implants? What Does Bone Marrow Actually Do?
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If you’ve ever had a car break down and a mechanic tells you that you’ve got a busted thingy-ma-bob, you’ll probably pay the man and get the part? But what about us? What happens if one of our 206 bones break? Can i get new one? If you break a bone, you go to the doctor and you get a cast. Then your bone heals itself. Which is actually pretty incredible if you stop and think about it… We tend to think of bones as these rigid support systems, but they’re actually made of living tissue! Bones are constantly breaking down and remodeling themselves to adapt to your lifestyle -- if you go from playing video games on your couch to marathon running, your bones are going to change to compensate! It’s pretty incredible -- and scientists call this adapting: Wolff’s law. So, if I just started marath...
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If you’ve ever had a car break down and a mechanic tells you that you’ve got a busted thingy-ma-bob, you’ll probably pay the man and get the part? But what about us? What happens if one of our 206 bones break? Can i get new one? If you break a bone, you go to the doctor and you get a cast. Then your bone heals itself. Which is actually pretty incredible if you stop and think about it… We tend to think of bones as these rigid support systems, but they’re actually made of living tissue! Bones are constantly breaking down and remodeling themselves to adapt to your lifestyle -- if you go from playing video games on your couch to marathon running, your bones are going to change to compensate! It’s pretty incredible -- and scientists call this adapting: Wolff’s law. So, if I just started marath...
