Finding a new substance capable of skull regeneration

An international team of researchers successfully repaired a rat hole in the mouse with a new material they had just made .

Researchers from Northwestern University have announced that they have created a new protein material capable of restoring defects on the skull of the mouse.

Previously, for the treatment of brain and skull injuries, the current medical bone defect often involves methods of bone grafting from the bones and marrow of other parts of the body. This will cause pain for the patient even after recovering, with the skull or facial bones, the transplant problem is extremely difficult.

Being aware of this, Northwestern University researchers have created a new protein material that is able to reproduce, repair broken, bone defects on the rat's skull, leaving absolutely no scars and very heal.

' It is an extremely interesting study ' - Guillermo Ameer, Biomedical Engineering Professor at McCormick Northwest School of Engineering and a professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a press release.

' This project is a collaborative effort between the research team and our Medical Regeneration Engineering Laboratory to provide biological materials for them to do research '.

The team created a new protein-based material called BMP9 and used PPCN-g hydrogen , along with citric acid to form an elastic gel like a scaffold to support the material in place. cracking the mouse's skull to limit the effects that the hole created with the inner brain region act as a pedestal for the BMP9 material to work.

BMP9 materials can promote bone cell growth faster and help the vascular process in the affected area safely and quickly and effectively.

' When applying this method, BMP9 protein material will promote more regenerative bone according to the planned elastic gel scaffold in the gap. This will help the bone to reproduce properly in size, position and more effective. During bone regeneration, repair, the BMP9 material as well as the elastic gel scaffold will be fixed until the bone is activated normally . "

This new technique is only applicable to rat skulls but opens up a new era of bone regeneration faster, safer, leaving no scars on the human body in the future.

This research has just been published in PLoS One.