Grown bone
Put away your Skele-gro, because growing new bones might be the realm of science, not magic.
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology and Radboud University Medical Center, in The Netherlands, have grown the most life-like piece of bone tissue to date, using human stem cells.
“With this, we present, for the first time, the full picture of early-stage bone formation,” says Sandra Hofmann of Eindhoven University of Technology.
Key research points
Bone cells were grown from human stem cells.
Organoid contained multiple cell types.
This could be used to learns the molecular process of bone growth.
Bones are very complex materials that require both a precise matrix of collagen and mineral and intricate cells and cellular processes. Together, this means that growing actual bones is a multi-faceted process.