Bio jewelery made from human bone tissue at Dana Center

23 Jan '06

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Jewellery made from human bone tissue was introduced at the Dana Center on January 18, 2006.

The Dana Center of Science Museum is unique café and bar for adults to discuss contemporary science.

'Bio-Bling' explores how lab-grown bone tissue cultured from human cells can be engineered as a material for design and future possibilities and uses for human bone tissue produced in a laboratory environment will also be explored before the jewellery is constructed and displayed at Guy's Hospital later in 2006.

At the Dana Centre event the public would have the unique opportunity to probe designers and scientists behind the project.

The event was 'melting pot' of ideas. Experts include Ian Thompson from Kings College London who quizzed about the clinical opportunities for bioactive materials and Nikki Stott and Tobie Kerridge‚ researchers from the Royal College of Art‚ who were investigating the relationship between design and new technologies as well as the social and cultural issues of tissue engineering. The couples who are donating their bone tissue will also be at the event.

Biojewellery is a government-funded project to promote awareness of the issues surrounding tissue engineering.

In 1998 Science Museum conducted a survey of the use of our site focusing on education. The results of the survey are accessible from us if requested. The origins of the Science Museum lie in the nineteenth-century movement to improve scientificand technical education.

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