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Scientists Create Artificial Bones From Wood
steve_thatguy writes "According to Discovery News, Italian scientists have made artificial bone from wood. Created by blasting wood blocks with heat until they are nearly pure carbon then coating them with calcium, the scientists say the material allows bones to heal faster and more securely. Unlike titanium, the wood-based artificial bones flex slightly much like real bone, and the porous nature of the wood allows for better bio-activity with surrounding tissue. Though human testing is still likely years away, the material is currently being used successfully in sheep and may have other industrial applications."
Well that's not good. Now if they bleed they're going to attract ants.
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So... if they're giving sheep wooden legs... does that mean they're creating pirate sheep? Are they also giving them eye patches and pet parrots?
let washington's dentist be chastised no more!
she was the daughter of a wealthy florentine pogen read em and weep was her adjustable slogan
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... to invent something that turns orthopedic surgeons into woody boners.
(Yes. I went there.)
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Bones out of wood. Wow! I guess Buster's upgrade to wooden bones was prescient.
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That's what I call some baaaahhhd medicine.
Now the goverment is going to create the worst mutant ever: Weapon W.
I've been making bones from wood since puberty, these scientists obviously never took health class in middle school.
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except humans dont have a penile bone, so no.
...the material is currently being used successfully in sheep and may have other industrial applications/b>
Mutant zombie sheep used as forced labor in factories?
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Creating artificial wood from boners!
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"I saw a man with a wooden leg, and a real foot." -- Steven Wright
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Pirates have been replacing damaged or missing limbs with replacements made of wood for years!
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[pirate]Arrrr! My thinks me shoulda patented me peg leg[/pirate]
I guess if it's purely carbon (not ash?) you wouldn't get wood rot? How do they prevent the body attacking it as an infection either way?
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until your new bone fractures. then you get splinters of wood all over your body, which surely can't be good
Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor - not a magician!
Got wood for sheep?
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At $850 per block or bone, doctors and medical companies will never go for it. Not enough profit to be made.
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"Paradoxically, metal or ceramic implants meant to prevent bone breaks can sometimes cause them. Current implants are significantly harder than the bone that surrounds them. Natural bone can flex slightly. In fact, stress helps build stronger bones. However, the harder implants can apply so much stress to a particular area that the bone snaps. Softer wooden implants might cause fewer bone breaks."
Hm, this is like what I learned in Structures: or Why Things Don't Fall Down.
The author noted that insurance companies, finding a weak wall, would often over-retrofit it. Then the building collapses, becase the weight that would have been born by the wall is displaced onto the other walls.
He also wrote about the cult of metal. The only reason engines are made of metal, he explained, is because they have to contain very high temperatures. If it were not for that, they could be made far more efficiently with hoses and bladders. He challenged the readers to come up with ways to make things that are presently made out of metal out of other materials -- such as wood and bird feathers.
Sheep die at the slightest insult to their systems. A runny nose is a death sentence. I find it unbelievable that sheep are recuperating on their own with the assistance of some charcoal and calcium
Burn her!
At least they can't be turned into a newt!
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Hey, hon, does your leg of lamb taste like toothpicks?
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"Heating them until they're almost pure carbon..."
Why not just use carbon? Why start with wood at all?
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When you take wood and heat it in such a way that almost only pure carbon is left, it's called charcoal. I bet they avoided that little term because it doesn't sound nearly as cool (or strong) as wood.
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Got a broken leg? We have wood glue!
Pirate sheep rejoice!
This almost makes up for the advantage of Velcro gloves.
I, for one, welcome our pirate sheep overlords...
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I got yer bone made outta wood right here.
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Wooden bones => bridge => floats => weighs the same as a duck => witch => burn her!
This should be good enough to start your research
Ah, the sheep, a stellar piece of industrial machinery.
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Trust me, the implant manufacturers get way more money, than the average orthopaedic surgeon for, say a hip replacement. The surgeon gets around $1000 from insurance companies(or medicare) which includes 3 months follow up visits, while the implant manufacturer gets around $7000 for their artificial hip.
The biggest expense in most surgeries is from the implants. Why? - because of all the liability lawsuits, which require exhaustive testing, sterilization, rechecking, etc.
People love to sue anything with deep pockets, so you can go thank the ambulance chasers, and the good for nothing person who's "disabled" and can't work anymore, for your expensive medical bills.
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Bone is porous, so that the bone cells can live in them It's called a osteo conductive property of the substrate... Wood has a porous structure, and thus it is used, rather than say a solid block.
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Sheep die at the slightest insult to their systems. A runny nose is a death sentence. I find it unbelievable that sheep are recuperating on their own with the assistance of some charcoal and calcium
Ewe definitely hang around with the wrong flock, try meeting some Perendales. Whilst they do have a tendency to sulk, they do not die readily; indeed constitutionally, and attitudinally, they are quite the ovine survivor.
Yarrrr... me peg leg'll be worth a few bottles o rum afterall!
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the wood-based artificial bones flex slightly much like real bone
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Why make artificial bones, when there are tons of this stuff readily available but left unused in those wasted spaces we superstitious beings call cemeteries?
Recycle, goddammit.
.. is that the sheep weighs the same as a duck?