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Robotic Thumbs, Mending Bones with Magnets, and the State of Science this Summer

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Different receptors control the way stem cells turn into different types of tissue. So if you pick another receptor, it might become a nerve. If you'd pick another rec tor, it becomes tendon. You can actually almost imagine a whole kind of dialin concept where you put different particles with different receptor tags to turn into different tissues. That's the idea it. And we're on toi having to see the first bone trials in a person.

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