Doctors Can Now Successfully 3D Print A Knee Joint


Doctors Can Now Successfully 3D Print A Knee Joint
Essentially, doctors at the Columbia University Medical Center have been able to print a knee meniscus using a degradable plastic scaffold and a protein growth system. The body then subsumes the printed object and turns the protein into a knee joint.

December 15, 2014 at 08:06PM
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