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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Need-a-bone-Israeli-company-is-growing-them-in-a-lab-596818
Israeli Technology Promises to Revolutionize Bone Healing
(Jerusalem Post) Eytan Halon - Israeli biotechnology company Bonus BioGroup has developed a unique technology to revolutionize bone healing. It has the world's first viable human bone graft manufacturing facility, where bone grafts are constructed outside the body from the patient's own live tissue. A new bone is grown in a laboratory bioreactor and then implanted back into the patient. "Because every patient gets his own tissue and own cells back, the safety profile of this kind of therapy is very high," said Dr. Shai Meretzki, president of Bonus BioGroup. "There is no immune reaction to the implant, never mind rejection....We see a very nice recovery and complete healing of the bone gap." For those with osteoporosis which involves large bone cavities instead of gaps, "to overcome this, we grow the bone in thousands of tiny particles and then we can just inject those particles into the cavity. The bone is filled with tens of millions of cells that keep growing, and become bigger and solid within 24 hours. Filling the cavity with injectable bone reduces a painful operation of 15 hours into a treatment of 10 minutes, and within two months, the bone is healthy, alive, viable and active again." "We take the hardest cases where people have already given up on them. They are all back on their feet or have full use of their hands. One patient, 13 months after he had a bone implant in his leg, completed the Ironman Triathlon."