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.
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