This page is for us to share cool findings, articles, and research that we come across. Have something you think we should see? Send Stephanie an email!

• What role do bones play in aging?
• Exercise is important! (but also the dancing skeleton is pretty awesome)
• Bones are incredibly cool!
• Transparent animals can be used to help visualize the nervous system or organs – how cool is this?!?  Video / Paper
• Print on Demand Bones: Researchers at Northwestern come up with a combination of materials that can be used to 3D print bones
• A great video about how astronauts keep their bones healthy in space.
• Strandbeests – Theo Jansen builds artistic kinetic sculptures powered by wind
• FDA approves OPRA, a prosthetic leg implanted into the femur for amputees
• New fixes for worn knees: Scientists test implanting an artificial meniscus or inducing the body to grow a new one
• Research with space explorers may one day heal Earth’s warriors – Research aboard the ISS looks into growing bone
• 3D printing helps grow bone to restore facial structure – “Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using 3D printing technology to convert CT scans of facial bones into templates for new bone formation…”
• Social Media Accelerates Science – very interesting read and food for thought.
• Meet Gabi Shull, a dancer who had her leg amputated and her foot reattached backwards at the knee joint. Just one of many many examples of how biomedical engineering can improve quality of life.