(Daily Mail-UK) Tim Collins - "Game changing" surgery to regrow part of a legbone using human tissue created in a lab has been undertaken at Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel. The man involved lost two inches (five cm.) of his shinbone in a serious car accident. For the experimental tissue-engineering technology, fat cells extracted from the patient were used to create constituent parts which were then grown on a biodegradable scaffold over the course of two weeks. Semi-solid live bone tissues that resulted were then placed back into the patient's body. Because the cells used to grow the bones are from the patient, this helps to minimize the risk of rejection.
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