UM: Medical Research

The New York Times reports on efforts to grow tissue-engineered bones in research labs, and includes a description of work done by Scott Hollister, a UM professor and co-founder of Tissue Regeneration Systems. Hollister is working on creating bones of a jaw joint, using the human body as the incubator. “The scaffold for the new bone, designed from a CT scan and printed directly using a laser system, is filled with cells from bone marrow or fat that are taken from the patient to prevent immune-system reactions. ‘Then we will let the patient’s body naturally heal and reconstruct the tissue as the implant is resorbed by the body,’ he said.” [Source]