What does it take to regrow bone in mass quantities? Typical bone
regeneration -- wherein bone is taken from a patient’s hip and grafted
onto damaged bone elsewhere in the body -- is limited and can cause
great pain just a few years after operation. In an informative talk,
Molly Stevens introduces a new stem cell application that harnesses
bone’s innate ability to regenerate and produces vast quantities of bone
tissue painlessly.
Molly Stevens studies and creates new biomaterials that could be
used to detect disease and repair bones and human tissue.