Synthetic Bone Graft Recruits Stem Cells to Facilitate Bone Healing

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Scientists from the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) have developed a material for bone grafts that could potentially replace natural bone implants. As reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers show ...

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Seeing through Opaque Materials

Monday, March 8th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_12876" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Knowing enough about the way light is scattered through materials would allow physicists to see through opaque substances, such as the sugar cube on the right. In addition, physicists could use information characterizing an opaque material to put it to work as a high quality optical ...

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