Hyperelastic “bone”
28 September 2016
| Hyperelastic “bone”: A highly versatile, growth factor–free, osteoregenerative, scalable, and surgically friendly biomaterial | Adam EJ et al |
| What if we could create custom bone implants that would trigger their own replacement with real bone? Jakus and colleagues have done just this with a promising biomaterial that can be 3D-printed into many shapes and easily deployed in the operating room. Made mainly of hydroxyapatite and either polycaprolactone or poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), this “hyperelastic bone” can be 3D-printed at up to 275 cm3/hour, the authors report. | Science Translational Medicine 28 Sep 2016: Vol. 8, Issue 358, pp. 358ra127, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf7704 |
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