UD engineer Michael Hast leads an NIH-funded effort to identify impaired bone healing earlier with MRI-based computer models Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on ...

Tiny implantable sensors are being developed to help heal broken bones quicker. The devices allow data-enabled resistance training to speed up the natural healing process in lab rats, say American ...

During a complicated bone surgery, every second matters. The longer a wound is open, the more likely it is to become infected and injured. Now picture this: Surgeons can now print a new piece of bone ...

Healing a broken bone can take months, and knowing whether recovery is on track often takes just as long. Doctors typically rely on periodic X-rays, capturing two-dimensional images to see how the ...

Penn Medicine researchers unveiled in a recently published paper that a type of stem cell originating in skeletal muscle cells can turn into bone. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Every year, nearly 10 million Americans experience a broken bone. A quarter of patients with lower leg fractures face delayed healing, and one in 10 patients will develop a nonunion, a break that ...

Whether they're caused by injury, disease or other factors, missing sections of bone can be quite difficult to replace. A new injectable hydrogel could change that, however, by transforming into a ...

What if the next time you broke a bone, you didn’t need screws, plates, or invasive surgery to heal? Imagine a medical adhesive so powerful it could bond fractured bones in minutes, yet gentle enough ...