If you break your leg it might stop your life for a while, It might take you a month or more to heal your broken bone. But how about quick glue that takes only few minutes? That’s what a company in the U.K RegenTec invented “injectable Bone” that speed up the healing process by injecting a white powder designed to seal broken bones together in minutes.

“You won’t be able to just walk out of a hospital with a broken leg,” said Robin Quirk, a professor at the University of Nottingham who, along with Kevin Shakesheff in the United States, originally developed the technology. “What we are trying to do in the short term is have something that fills the void left by a break that acts like normal spongy bone and encourages natural regeneration.”

In room temperature the material is white and powder, but since the body’s temperature is higher than the surrounding environment the two main component of the mix ” ceramic and polylactic acid “would fuse together in a hard, spongy mass much like living bone, when injected in the broken site.

The company said that this process of quick healing process by using injectable bone isn’t meant to permanently replace natural bone, just give the body time to repair. The company is hoping to introduce the new materia within  18 months from now. They have also said that there is so much interest for the products from the military.

Source – Discovery Channel