Bone is the most transplanted tissue after blood but bone banks are constantly short of donors, with only 10 per cent of people who have hip replacements opting-in to donate.

When a patient is scheduled for this surgery, they can choose to donate the femoral head —the ball joint at the top of the thigh bone — to the bone bank using a simple consent form.

and stage V hips displayed complete disassociation of the articular surface from the underlying subchondral bone and delamination of the femoral head. Stage VI hips displayed profound degenerative ...

“In patients with less than 30% involvement of the femoral head and without collapse, a hip decompression with injection of bone marrow concentrate has been shown to be successful in about 90% ...

Based on having the same shape and direction of curvature, the Ushikawa man fossils were concluded to actually be the radius, or forearm, and femoral head bone of a bear. Moreover, the fossilized ...

Demonstration of the easily injectable hydrogel © flowbone/EPFL LBO EPFL researchers have combined injections of a novel ...