Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Bioglass helping to mend bones

Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 10, 2013



Jose Ramon Sarasua and Aitor Larranaga, researchers in the materials engineering department of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, have been studying new materials or implants that are of interest in medicine and in helping to mend bones, in particular. They have in fact measured the effect that the bioglass has on the thermal degradation of polymers currently used in medicine. The res