There's some interesting new research coming in on bone healing. Researchers have found a way to adapt the basic mechanisms used by creatures that can regenerate- like flatworms- and apply it to mammals.
In this particular case, they used mice and found they were able to stimulate bone healing by a factor of three times or more. While it's still obviously very experimental, the obvious hope is to one day adapt this technology to humans for use not only with faster fracture healing, but perhaps osteoporosis as well.
In fact, the same basic techinique could possibly be adapted to other tissue types, such as skin, opening the door for a whole new host of regenerative technology.
Now let's just hope they can make it affordable!
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