Professors at Colorado State University have developed a new coating that could help bone implants last longer. Dr. Matt Kipper, an Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, is working with Dr. Nicole Ehrhart in the Flint Animal Cancer Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, on the research. They say their findings will benefit “both humans and animals at risk for losing a limb due to massive bone trauma or bone cancer.”
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