Spanish scientists successfully generate 'artificial bones' from umbilical cord stem cells ( University of Granada ) Although their results were obtained "ex vivo", in the future they could help manufacture medicines to treat neoplastic, traumatic or degenerative bone pathologies. After obtaining artificial bone in the laboratory, the next step is to implant the biomaterial in animals to see if it can regenerate bone in them.
July 18, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Bert Vogelstein in Howard Hughes Medical Institute It presents a whole new view of the neoplastic process,said Vogelstein, "and explains the heterogeneity that clinicians have long noted to exist among cancer patients."