{"id":102774,"date":"2020-02-24T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/a-promising-new-strategy-to-help-broken-bones-heal-faster"},"modified":"2020-02-24T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:22:21","slug":"a-promising-new-strategy-to-help-broken-bones-heal-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/a-promising-new-strategy-to-help-broken-bones-heal-faster","title":{"rendered":"A promising new strategy to help broken bones heal faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-promising-new-strategy-to-help-broken-bones-heal-faster3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with diabetes are at a higher risk of fracturing a bone than the general population. And if they do break one it also takes longer than normal to heal.<\/p>\n<p>In the March issue of <i>Biomaterials<\/i>, Henry Daniell, Shuying (Sheri) Yang, and colleagues at Penn\u2019s School of Dental Medicine share promising findings from an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/animal+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">animal model<\/a> in which a plant-grown <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein+drug\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein drug<\/a> sped healing of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone<\/a> fracture. The work, which used the protein insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), showed that an orally delivered, shelf-stable medication grown in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lettuce+plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lettuce plants<\/a> could stimulate the growth of bone-building <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> and promote bone regeneration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how one protein impacted fracture healing,\u201d says Daniell, corresponding author on the paper. \u201cThe current drug for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/diabetic+patients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">diabetic patients<\/a> with a fracture requires repetitive injections and hospital visits and as a result patience compliance is low. Here we gave an oral drug once a day and saw healing to be greatly accelerated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with diabetes are at a higher risk of fracturing a bone than the general population. And if they do break one it also takes longer than normal to heal. In the March issue of Biomaterials, Henry Daniell, Shuying (Sheri) Yang, and colleagues at Penn\u2019s School of Dental Medicine share promising findings from an animal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}