The waste obtained from the beer brewing process contains the main chemical components found in bones (phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and silica), that after undergoing modification processes, this waste can be used as support or scaffold to promote bone
regeneration for medical applications such as coating prosthesis or bone grafts.
Not exact matches
Langer, an MIT Institute Professor with some 750 patents issued or pending worldwide, was one of the first people to apply chemical engineering methods to
medical applications, pioneering the use of specially designed polymers
for targeted drug delivery and tissue
regeneration.
«This discovery is important not only because of the possible
medical applications for retinal
regeneration but also
for the possible
regeneration of other nervous tissues,» says Daniela Sanges, first author of the work and postdoctoral researcher in Pia Cosma's laboratory.