Finnish Researchers Print Bone-Like Scaffolds That Let the Body Do the Rest

Finnish Researchers Print Bone-Like Scaffolds That Let the Body Do the Rest

Somewhere in the mineral lattice of your skeleton, calcium and phosphate ions are locked into a crystalline structure called hydroxyapatite. It is, in a sense, what you are made of: the same compound accounts for roughly 70 percent of bone’s dry weight, giving it a rigidity that resists compression and a chemistry that living cells recognise instinctively. For decades, surgeons reaching for bone graft material had to look elsewhere: to cadaver d…