Laboratory Grown Discs May Cure Back Pain
According to an article in http://news.sciencemag.org degenerating disks may soon be replaceable with bioengineered disk implants grown in the laboratory. Sarah Williams wrote A research team has implanted living, biologically based disks into rats spines and found that they all had as much movement as native, healthy discs.
Although the bioengineered disks havent made it to human testing yet, it is a step in the right direction.