Doctors Conduct First-Ever 'Science Fiction' Bone Regrowth Surgery On Patient

An Israeli man is the first patient ever to receive a surgical procedure Tuesday to regrow part of his bone, according to reports. After a car accident eight months prior, the male patient had part of his shin bone removed. Surgeons were able to successfully tend to his injury with a procedure that's being deemed as "science fiction." The operation was developed several years back by Bonus BioGroup, an Israel-based biotechnology company that utilizes technology to generate tissue-regenerating bone grafts. The company's medical team harvested fat tissue cells from the man's leg and grew them in their lab. The fat cells were then injected back into the man's leg to regenerate the bone's missing parts.