Conventional treatments often involve bone grafts combined with serum or bioadhesives to fill the defect. However, existing injectable hydrogels face challenges such as difficulty in maintaining ...

A new injectable hydrogel, however, is claimed to drastically boost bone density in as little as two weeks. The disease occurs when there's an imbalance between a person's osteoblasts – which ...

Orthopedic researchers have developed a promising new nanoparticle hydrogel that can be injected directly into bones weakened by osteoporosis. In a study recently published in the journal Bone ...

An injectable hydrogel for local bone densification Date: January 28, 2025 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Researchers have combined injections of a novel hydrogel with ...

“In this work, we demonstrate for the first time that a combined therapy of a systemically delivered drug and local injection of our hydrogel delivers a rapid increase in bone density, and could ...

Pioletti and colleagues at EPFL start-up flowbone have developed an injectable hydrogel that targets rapid, localized increase in bone density. The team, in collaboration with Vincent Stadelmann ...

“In this work, we demonstrate for the first time that a combined therapy of a systemically delivered drug and local injection of our hydrogel delivers a rapid increase in bone density, and could ...

These materials should therefore behave as fluids during their injection to a defect, (such as a bone fracture or a cartilage defect) but subsequentely act as temporary scaffolds that support the ...