Normally, what do you do when you decide to eat a fish. Descaling it would be the normal practice, as eating a fish with its scales on isn't exactly the most efficient way of digging in. Ever wondered whether there is a way to “recycle” those scales into something else more useful. Junzo Tanaka's research group at Tokyo Institute of Technology might have stumbled upon a potential goldmine, after managing to use fish scales to develop artificial bone.
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See also:
digitalblog, Fish scales end up as artificial bone
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