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What's Your Moonshot? Meet EpiBone's Nina Tandon

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As the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, Nina Tandon is using stem cells and 3D printing to create living skeletal implants for those who need them. She wants to bypass the use of foreign materials, like metal and plastic, and harness the power of a patient's own body to create implants. EpiBone's technology creates a "puzzle piece" for patients, infusing their own stem cells into it before incubating it in a bioreactor that mimics conditions inside the body. The piece

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