Personalized bone substitutes created from skin cells

The study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, a NYSCF-Helmsley Investigator and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Research Fellow, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , represents a major advance in personalized reconstructive treatments for patients with bone defects resulting from disease or trauma.

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