{"id":88427,"date":"2019-03-06T00:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/graphene-shows-promise-for-repairing-broken-bones"},"modified":"2019-03-06T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:02:23","slug":"graphene-shows-promise-for-repairing-broken-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/graphene-shows-promise-for-repairing-broken-bones","title":{"rendered":"Graphene Shows Promise for Repairing Broken Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-shows-promise-for-repairing-broken-bones3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you were a kid, did you ever sign a classmate\u2019s cast after they broke an arm or a leg? Your name would be on display there for the rest of the semester. Broken bones are one of the worst trade-offs in childhood\u2014a few seconds of calamity followed by months of boring rest and recovery. But children in the future may have a different story to tell as emerging tech overhauls how we fix broken bones.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon nanomaterials may have the power to heal bones faster than a Harry Potter fan can say \u2018Brackium Emendo!\u2019 Researchers from<a href=\"http:\/\/sydlikgroup.blogspot.com\/p\/welcome.html\"> Stefanie A. Sydlik\u2019s<\/a> team at Carnegie Mellon University have tested a new formulation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graphene\">graphene<\/a> that is biodegradable, mimics bone, attracts stem cells, and ultimately improves how animals can repair damage to their skeletons.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2019\/02\/21\/1815434116\">PNAS<\/a>, this phosphate graphene serves as a scaffold, allowing the body\u2019s own cells to more rapidly reform the missing or damaged bone. The technique has already shown success in mice. As this technology matures it could become a vital part of orthopedic medicine, helping us recover faster with stronger, healthier bones.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/03\/04\/graphene-shows-promise-for-repairing-broken-bones\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/03\/04\/graphene-shows-promise...ken-bones\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you were a kid, did you ever sign a classmate\u2019s cast after they broke an arm or a leg? Your name would be on display there for the rest of the semester. Broken bones are one of the worst trade-offs in childhood\u2014a few seconds of calamity followed by months of boring rest and recovery. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88427","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}