Fish scales as a main ingredient for making artificial bone

Now the fish scales may not be removed again if the research being conducted by a group Junzo Tanaka at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Researchers succeeded in utilizing fish scales are used as material for weeks to create an artificial human bones.

So far, the artificial bone materials using pig skin but this one is at risk because a lot of virus in pig skin so that it can harm humans who use these artificial bone. The use of fish scales are also much faster to converge with human bones (only 3 months while the pigskin 6 bulaan), more powerful and certainly much safer because there are no viruses harmful to humans. If research is successful it will be of much use, especially for seniors who used to frequent and more porous bone.

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Tags: Health Technology