Italian scientists' 'wood to bone' medical breakthrough

[CosmicSpork]

Scientists in Italy have discovered a way of making artificial replacement bones out of wood.

Early trials on sheep have showed encouraging results.

The team behind the programme hopes the new bones will soon be available for patients whose own bones have been damaged by accident or disease.

Love this stuff. Watch the video report below

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8438209.stm

 

[5810Singer]

This is brilliant news!

Just imagine the humane benefits of this technology.

It's bloody brilliant!

 

[obsidianavenger]

lol my first thought was "omg but what about splinters!?"

can you imagine how much it would hurt to have a splinter on the inside?

for reals though, thats amazing :mrgreen:

 

[xman]

Is it just me, when I hear about this sort of breakthrough, even though I've never thought about it before, my response is, "Of course". I'm not surprised. I'm impressed and inspired. More and more we will hear stories like this.

 

[5810Singer]

Is it just me, when I hear about this sort of breakthrough, even though I've never thought about it before, my response is, "Of course". I'm not surprised. I'm impressed and inspired. More and more we will hear stories like this.

It's just you.....