A tool made from a modified glue gun can now repair broken bones in surgery by 3D-printing grafts directly onto them. Bone implants have historically been made of metal, donor bone and more recently ...

Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun — the kind you’d use for an arts and crafts DIY project at home — to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals, to aid ...

When bones break and there is extreme tissue loss--such as after a car accident or a battlefield injury--current treatments don't often lead to effective healing. But certain stem cells from skeletal ...

Linear fractures are breaks in the bone near the top of the head, above the ears. Depressed fractures push the bone closer to your brain and can be serious. Basal (basilar) fractures are breaks in the ...