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Doctors grow new muscle in patients with traumatic injuries

In what is being called a major step forward in medical technology, scientists are using a protein substance taken from a pig’s bladder to create a scaffold for new muscle to grow in patients with serious injuries. Patients have not regrown 100 percent of their muscle, but all have shown improved mobility. Don Dahler reports.
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