Israel performs first surgery to regrow a bone

The Haemek Hospital in the northern Israeli town of Afula has performed some groundbreaking surgery to regrow a part of the human bone.The shinbone of one Danny was removed eight months ago after a car accident. It was treated in the procedure termed “science fiction” by medical staff. Danny lived in a nearby kibbutz (a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture).

During the surgery, the first of its kind in the world, doctors took fat cells from the patient, grew them in a lab and injected them back into his body for them to generate the missing parts of the bone, a newspaper called Yedioth Ahronoth reported recently. Bonus BioGroup, an Israeli biotechnology company developed the procedure many years ago.