Regrown Bones, Transplanted Faces: This Chemist Is Remaking Military Medicine

Regrown Bones, Transplanted Faces: This Chemist Is Remaking Military Medicine | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Kohn himself pioneered a new class of degradable compounds that are now used inside the body to provide controlled drug delivery, as well as for tissue engineering and regenerative processes like bone and nerve repair. And during his leadership of the AFIRM program, scientists under Kohn’s guidance have already completed an array of futuristic therapies to heal wounded soldiers: Among them are the country’s first-ever face transplant; lab-grown ears nearly ready for human transplantation; and an engineered skin substitute that will soon be tested on soldiers with extensive burns."