Scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford are collaborating on a pioneering tissue engineering project to 'grow' human bone. Ros Dodd finds out more from biomaterials expert Professor Liam Grover.
Losing a limb in a roadside bomb is terrible enough; developing the painful and further disabling disease heterotopic ossification (HO) – in which bone grows in abnormal places such as soft tissue – is an added trauma.
