By linking fundamental studies to clinical needs Um biomedical engineers are fashioning new artificial joints, overcoming development flaws, and mending shattered limbs.

This article features the work of Steven Goldstein, a veteran of biomedical engineering at the UM and head of the Orthopaedics Laboratory, whose research has provided a deeper understanding of the relationship between mechanical forces and bone. Recently, he has been part of an exciting new biological approach to healing hard-to-mend fractures.

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