Bone on Demand!

[Tuckerfan]

Is one of the Monty Pythoners writing headlines for the Beeb, these days?

Surgery hope for ‘bone on demand’

Scientists believe a breakthrough may lead to bone being grown on demand for people with bone diseases and breaks.

US researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt University grew new bone next to old bone in experiments on rabbits.

Surgeons currently rely on taking bone from other parts of the body to mend serious breaks.

The findings are due to be published next week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lead researcher Prasad Shastri said: "We have shown that we can grow predictable volumes of bone on demand.

Interesting to note that the researchers they interviewed (who were not involved with the project) had mixed reactions to the report.