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“Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have published findings that show, for the first time, that bone cells can grow and proliferate on a scaffold of carbon nanotubes. Bone cells appear as a clump at left, carbon nanotubes appear on the right. (Image courtesy of University of California - Riverside) The paper, titled Bone Cell Proliferation on Carbon Nanotubes, appears in the March 8 edition of Nano Letters, a journal of the American Chemical Society. Lead author, Laura Zanello, is an assistant professor of biochemistry at UCR and was joined by UCR colleagues, graduate students Bin Zhao and Hui Hu, and Robert C. Haddon, distinguished professor of chemistry and of chemical and environmental engineering.”

We’ve had some success in the scientific world in coaxing some parts of the body to grow in the lab, but bone material has proven a very tricky feat. It looks like these researchers have made quite a breakthrough, and hopefully this will lead to not only replacing missing bone material, but strengthening existing bone. Whether you’re old, or merely undergoing cybernetic augmentation, this research may yield amazing results.

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