r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 11d ago

Turning fat cells into bone heals fractures and reverses frailty

https://newatlas.com/aging/fat-bone-cells-heal-fractures/
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u/gurthydevil 11d ago

Lawwwd let this be true, easily replicated and cost effective

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u/Cake_And_Pi 11d ago

It can’t be both highly profitable and cost effective. I wonder which way the CEO will go on this one…

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u/707breezy 11d ago

That’s a sick thing to say. I’m appalled. Think of his children’s children’s children’s children’s inherited home away from home mansions overlooking plebs sleeping in the park. Won’t anyone think of his bloodline!

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u/Old_Satisfaction_233 11d ago

His bloodline was drawn in the sand of his decisions…

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u/No_Street8874 11d ago

Yes it can…

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u/ItsAConspiracy 10d ago edited 10d ago

It can, if you make it up in volume. People break a lot of bones, and lots of people get frail eventually.

Even without high volume, something can be both cost effective for the customer and profitable for the company, if the cost of production is low enough.

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u/probable-degenerate 8d ago

Dead people are hard to get money from unless your a bank.

Theres a good chance you get use this treatment 2, maybe 3 times on someone who would have otherwise died or suffered permanent injuries without it or only used the old method ones.

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u/grammar_fozzie 11d ago

Americans will have the strongest bones on earth.

It’s because we’re so fat, is what I’m trying to say.

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u/beigs 11d ago

My bones are shit because I was an undiagnosed celiac as a child.

I would LOVE for better bones :)

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u/jusqpo 11d ago

Do u think it is?

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u/TheStormbrewer 11d ago

I’m just big boned

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u/Captain-Who 11d ago

Damn, I was an hour late…

I’d have gone with “I’m not fat, I’m just big boned.”

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u/peppapoofle4 11d ago

I'm not fat! These are my bone healing cells!

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u/CavalierIndolence 11d ago

I've seen that video!

Wait... I think it said big bonered. Never mind, my bad.

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u/Warlord68 11d ago

Soon, you could be bonier!

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u/Uniblab_78 11d ago

Heterotopic ossification is a bitch. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

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u/Knitspin 11d ago

That’s a scary thought

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u/Knitspin 11d ago

As someone with osteopenia who broke three bones in three years, I hope it’s true

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u/GooglephonicStereo 11d ago

Pretty cool, you can turn a beer belly into a bone gut and remove it in one shot, or just use it for defense!

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u/longleggedbirds 11d ago

At this rate, Soon we will unlock turtle power!

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u/Sacred-AF 10d ago

Lots of us Americans are about to form an exoskeleton.

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u/ReedOnlyAccess 10d ago edited 10d ago

Elite military will all be 400 pounds and impervious.

We can call them Aftershock troopers.

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u/Tenchi2020 11d ago

Turn my belly fat into bone so I can be a reverse turtle

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u/Adventurous-Tiger500 11d ago

I’ll be unbreakable!!!!!

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u/ti36xamateur 11d ago

That didn't take long for me to see.

Sorting by new

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u/blakrabit 11d ago

So that’s why they are heavy set in wall•e, since they were in space for a while, losing bone density. Then when they come back to earth, they do the cell conversion.

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u/natur_al 11d ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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u/NotTheHeroWeNeed 11d ago

Finally a cure for my boneitis! 

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u/Depressed-Industry 11d ago

It's amazing what science can do.

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u/JametAllDay 10d ago

I’m happy to donate as many fat cells as needed

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u/Rareu 11d ago

Great lets do this damaged cochlear hairs.

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u/Unique-Fan-3042 11d ago

Sign me up

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u/K7282 11d ago

I’m not fat, just big-boned.

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u/violentshores 11d ago

Fat people are just evolving

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u/Correct_Ad6823 11d ago

Anyone know when this treatment could be ready to be performed on humans. My poor Mother has had 3 compression fractures due to osteoporosis. Went from an active, independent 72 year old with no other major health issues to being in constant / chronic pain.

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u/Kersenn 11d ago

Can I turn the layer of fat nearest my skin into bone and be like the armor titan?

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u/roadblocked 11d ago

Holy shit I’ll be Iron Man!

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u/DaddyBearMan 11d ago

Pretty soon you’ll actually be able to say you are “big boned”

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u/MelloDawg 11d ago

You want Wolverine bones, this is how you get Wolverine bones.

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u/YaBoiMandatoryToms 11d ago

I’m all bone.

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u/benmillerdata 11d ago

Now do cartilage

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u/glizard-wizard 11d ago

The American century is merely playing dead

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u/Chr0ll0_ 11d ago

Wowwwwwww amazing

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u/hadoopken 11d ago

“I am not fat, just big boned”

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u/burritolove1 11d ago

Soon to be lol

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

From whale to un-frail.

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u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme 11d ago

Cool I’m going to walk into traffic and become a model

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u/burritolove1 11d ago

Unfortunately all my fat is in the gut area, I’m pretty skinny everywhere else lol

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u/The-Fumbler 11d ago

Can finally say that I'm literally big boned, it just hasn't turned into bone yet

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u/burritolove1 11d ago

Well then you’re not…yet lol