Melbourne [Australia], April 11 (ANI): A new technique that could speed up recovery from bone replacements by altering the shape and nucleus of individual stem cells, has been discovered by an international research team from Monash University.

The research collaboration involving Monash University, the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, CSIRO, the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, developed micropillar arrays using UV nanoimprint lithography that essentially 'trick' the cells to become bone.