According to a report by the BBC, researchers in Australia plan to test a medical “scaffold” designed to stimulate natural breast tissue to “regrow” following surgery.
Doctors from the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, will test the technique next year in a trial involving six patients. The team believes that permanent fat found in breasts can be grown inside the scaffold and claim that the technique has already been successfully tested on pigs. If human trials prove successful, they hope to develop this approach into a breast reconstruction technique.
