Confounding clays of the Red River Valley that cause
structures to shift and buckle could actually hold the key to building better
bones in humans, according to a North Dakota State University research team.
Whether damaged by injury, disease or age, your body can’t
create new bone, but maybe science can. Researchers at North Dakota State
University, Fargo, are making strides in tissue engineering, designing
scaffolds that may lead to ways to regenerate bone. Published in the Journal of
Biomedical Materials Research Part A, the research of Dr. Kalpana Katti, Dr.
Dinesh Katti and doctoral student Avinash Ambre includes a novel method that
uses nanosized clays to make scaffolds to mineralize bone minerals such as
hydroxyapatite.