Carle, UI test computer-generating new bone

In the future, a doctor with a patient in need of a new bone might design one on a computer screen and then punch a button to make it reality.

If that sounds like science fiction, consider this: Researchers at the University of Illinois and Sandia National Laboratories, working with Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, did something a lot like it recently.

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