Fats are used to grow the Artificial Bone

Many people undergo liposuctlon to discard excess fat tissue in the body. However Bonus Biogroup, a biotechnology company in the northern city of Haifa, Israel, developed a way to change the excess fat into new artificial bone. The current method is useful to replace the bone structure that is lost or damaged.

The new findings are expected to help the millions of people worldwide who suffer from bone diseases, such as osteoporosis, bone infections, and accidents which cause damage to the bone. Scientists at the company grow fat cells in the scaffolds are made in accordance with the patient's bone scan results. Stem cells from fat cells will fill the mold and forming new bone that resembles a piece of bone missing. The process takes 2-3 months.

"The patient's body will not reject it because the fat-bone implant from his own body cells," said Dr. Shai Meretzki, Founder and Executive Director of Bonus Biogroup, on April 12, 2013. Cell extraction procedure that used in this method is not dangerous. This method is very different when compared with bone replacement operation that requires doctors to take some bone and transplanting patients to look as similar as possible to the bone replaced. The old way is of course much more painful and takes a long time, including post-operative care for several months.

Dr. Shai Meretzki, chief executive of Bonus BioGroup, with the human bones grown from stem cells. (Picture from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

Dr. Meretzki said, the patients who undergo this procedure must first undergo a minor liposuction on their stomach. Fat cells from liposuction results that were engineered into the new artificial bone cells. "Many patients encouraged us to continue the liposuction," he said. "Bone tissue is relatively easy to grow, because its cells are not as complex as the ones on body organs, but I don't think it's something impossible, we just need to research more," he added.

It took five years for Dr. Meretzki and his team to develop new innovations. The plan, this technology can also be applied in dentistry. Many cases of dental implants that do not run successfully because dentists difficulty taking root due to lack of bone structure. "With this technology, your dentist can regenerate bone tissue in the mouth so that the teeth can easily be put in its place" he said. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | THE TELEGRAPH | MAHARDIKA SATRIA HADI | KORAN TEMPO 4200]

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