Scientists from Imperial College London have a glass-based biologically active material that promotes bone growth created. This was said in the British Council for Science and Technology, interviewed with assistance. The new material - a bioactive porous glass - can help in the reconstruction of bone, particularly in elderly patients who could be spared in this case with the installation operations, bone grafts. One lesson from glass "works" as an active template for the growth of bone and dissolves in the body of the patient, without a trace. In the process of dissolution of the material releases calcium and other substances which stimulate bone growth. Glass genes activated in human bone cells that control the process of bone growth: it is the solution of the compounds of silicon and calcium ions at concentrations that "turn on" these genes would. Working with colleagues from the Universities of Kent and Warwick new material was tested ISIS neutron emitter. Experiment allowed us to determine exactly how calcium is released from the glass into the human body.
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