By Emma Innes
Daily Mail
NEW YORK — Diseased and broken bones can be repaired using grafts made from a patient’s skin cells, scientists have shown.
Researchers in the U.S. reprogrammed skin to become stem cells that were coaxed to form early stage bone precursors.
The immature bone cells were then ‘seeded’ onto a three-dimensional scaffold and stimulated to grow with nutrients.
Full story: Broken bones can be repaired using grafts made from skin cells, say scientists