Italians Discover How to Change Wood to BONE
 

...........unfortunate "sounds dirty but isn't" title, this is actually pretty cool, a new way to make artificial bones.

...that being said, I am juvenile enough to not be able to stop chuckling at the title. hurhurhurhur

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8438209.stm

thats awesome,
i can see this becoming more popular in the future. People who are short and want to be tall can potentially replace their bones with this material. Probably would be very expensive. They said that old bones fused with this material, I wonder if this material will repair itself if you break a bone in the place where this material is located.

It's not actually bone though...or what? I don't really get it because I'm not a science major, but would it be susceptible to the body rejecting it like with organ transplants?

I'm not entirely sure, but i think some patients who decide to undergo this type of transplant (given that it does reach medicine) will have some sort of rejection.

All cells have some sort of protein receptor, and since this wont match the patient's original makeup.....
but who the fuck knows im just in bio 12. :D

that's amazing!

well the sheep experiment showed it wasn't being rejected and was actually being fused together biologically with the original bone, so that makes it a little more promising

this is life changing

like the bbc correspondent stated the applications are limitless

osteoporosis patients, dental patients (many people need artificial bone placed in their jaw to help with implants), potential amputees, amputees (although i imagine it could only apply to people missing fingers), accident patients who've had their bones crushed etc etc etc

but this is still decades away, although it says human testing wont happen for another 5 years, if things are successful (most of the time they aren't) it would still take some more years for doctors to be trained, facilities to be made etc

the fact that its fusing with animals is a stunning accomplishment

i came in there reading the thread title to be

Italians Discover How to Change WEED to BONE

I'm Italian and I've learn to change weed into ash
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zomg i want wolverine claws

I one-up you by changing weed into cash. ;)

major breakthrough for sure
i did a module in biomaterials at school and its nice to see an organic material to hopefully one day replace titanium or ceramic.

WOW.
Simply Amazing!

When I saw this I was thinking can this help cure arthritis ....
and then the BBC guy mentioned it!

My grandma had terrible arthritis. This would be awesome!

^i wasn't so sure about that...
as far as i know, arthritis results from not enough cushioning between bones and not a factor of bones itself.

you know what else helps with arthritis? mary jane.

tell ur grandma to smoke a fatty and ask her how she feels :thumbsup::thumbsup::D

that's cool but, can they give me my wolverine skeleton?

Mindblasting

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but can they change bone into wood?

Blassstts my mind