Science_Illustrated_Australia_-_Issue70_2019

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PHOTODOC BONES

CERAMIC PRINTS 3D printed ceramics can grow together with living bone tissue.

With powder made of

calcium phosphate and

fat, scientists from the

University of Southern

Denmark can 3D-print

a ceramic material

that grows together

with the existing bones.

In experiments with

mice, the artifi cial bones

even produced marrow.

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