When your anxiety convinces you that it’s been so long something must have gone wrong but you can’t check if something’s gone wrong cause if it has then the people who could tell you something’s gone wrong would need space 😩😭💔

Boosting Bone Repair

Many broken bones can be mended with a cast, or pins, and with plenty of time and care. But, occasionally breaks can be so severe that help is needed in the form of a bone graft – either from the patient’s own bone (autograft), or from small pieces of cadaver bone (allograft). Neither is ideal, however, with autografts requiring the patient to undergo additional surgery, and cadaver material tending to be less potent than fresh bone. Scientists may soon have a third option, however, thanks to mesenchymal stem cells – a sort of stem cell found in bone. These cells, which can be grown almost indefinitely in culture, produce an extracellular matrix material (pictured) that acts as a scaffold for new bone. The matrix is rich in factors that promote growth of bone and blood vessels – necessary for bone survival – and was shown to boost bone repair significantly in animals.

Written by Ruth Williams

Image from work by Eoin P. McNeill and colleagues, Texas A&M University College of Engineering

Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX, USA

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Nature Communications, June 2020

HMMMMM...

aloe vera ⇢ what’s something (mundane) you really want to experience in life?

(Immediately turns into an ascetic monk who has never desired anything at all)

I want to take a road trip across the US or Canada. I've never even seen the Pacific Ocean or been to the west coast at all. Or I think it would be fun to just plan like, a week of driving with no particular destination just to see where we end up.

jasmine ⇢ do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?

I cant really think of any? Most things I like I am more than happy to engage with it multiple times.

papyrus ⇢ if you put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle, what’s the first song that comes up? what do you like about it / associate it with?

I've been obsessed with this song for awhile and in a way it kinda reminds me of Uinen. When I first listened to it I wasn't sure if I liked it, but in my experience those songs that take a few listens to get accustomed to are the most impactful.

The artist said "While writing lyrics, I was imagining a story of a girl traveling around world without home or friends or family, who was totally alone. It was like a journey through a dream, so I named it ‘Dream ended this way’ when I finished it."

What is a Hamstrings Autograft Surgery? – ACL Series

If you have injured your ACL and are preparing for surgery using hamstrings autograft, then you are in the right place. This video will take you into a real operating room to show you all of the steps that go into this procedure.

Remember, this is a video of an actual surgery, so be prepared!

For more information on Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, please click here: http://smog-ortho.com/providers/bert-r-man…