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Broken bones can be repaired using grafts from skin cells

Grafts placed under the skin of mice matured into fully formed bone tissue with the beginnings of a blood supply

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