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NTU scientists develop new biomaterial to help in bone repair
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(From left) NTU Assistant Professor Dalton Tay, NTU research fellow Dr Wang Jun Kit, and NTU Prof Matthew Hu Xiao are part of the research team that developed the new biomaterial.
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Baey Zo-Er
SINGAPORE - Bone repair often requires additional surgery to extract a patient's own tissue, but scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a new biomaterial that could help make it a cheaper and less painful process.
And they are making the material from frog skin and fish scales, which are usually discarded by farms.
