Osteoporosis is typically treated with orally administered drugs, which may take up to a year to have a noticeable effect. A ...

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 ...

EPFL researchers have combined injections of a novel hydrogel with systemic osteoporosis drugs in rats, achieving rapid local ...

Studies show that hydrogel injections alone can double or triple local bone density. The most significant effect was seen in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...