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"With this bone, I thee wed." Five U.K. couples recently sealed their vows by exchanging rings made from their own bone tissue, grown in the lab from sample cells. # Scientists harvested the cells from tiny slivers extracted from the couples' jawbones, then grew new tissue in bioglass scaffolds that mimic human bone structure. Artists fused the pure white bone with silver to create the unique rings.
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"With this bone, I thee wed." Five U.K. couples recently sealed their vows by exchanging rings made from their own bone tissue, grown in the lab from sample cells. # Scientists harvested the cells from tiny slivers extracted from the couples' jawbones, then grew new tissue in bioglass scaffolds that mimic human bone structure. Artists fused the pure white bone with silver to create the unique rings.
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You probably know how much we love custom-made objects here at Inhabitat, but this might just be a little too personalized: jewelry made from your own bone tissue! Wired reports that a small team of designers at the Royal College of Art and Kings College in London have figured out a way to extract bone cells from a person's jaw to create a customized skeletal object.
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Biojewelry developed by Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott, combines biotech and design to give a new emphasis to debates concerning genetics.
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At 1/05/2005 10:02:05 AM, Greg Hale said... Well the Flintstones come home to reality...I can imagine that the actual harvesting of bone from both couples may very well hurt worse than the divorce to follow... (for a theoretical 50%)
