If you’ve had your knee replaced with a piece of metal, you’re in good company. Every year, almost 500,000 people go into America’s hospitals to receive a total knee replacement, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. But one scientist hopes to do away with bone replacement procedures by actually rebuilding bone inside the body.
Dr. Robert Haddon from the University of California, Riverside thinks there may be another solution. He’s been working with carbon nanotubes, which are so small, they’re 100,000 times finer than human hair.
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This post was written by techhair on March 13, 2008
