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Bone, heal thyself: Toward ceramics tailored for optimized bone self-repair
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Bone, heal thyself: Toward ceramics tailored for optimized bone self-repair

by Tokyo Medical and Dental University  Transformation of a salt of calcium ions and phosphate esters into hydroxyapatite mediated by alkaline phosphatase (ALP). Credit: Department of Inorganic Biomaterials, TMDU Your chance of breaking a bone sometime within the next year is nearly 4%. If you’re unlucky enough to need a bone replacement, it’ll probably be...