On Tuesday, April 7, Nathalie Douard, a professor and researcher at the Center for Engineering and Health, gave a lecture at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon for a young audience.
This event was part of the ANR SiBio project, a portion of whose funding is dedicated to scientific outreach. This engaging, child-friendly lecture explored how the human skeleton grows and repairs itself, and how scientists invent new materials to help it regenerate. It served as a way to bridge the gap between science and society, sharing research topics led by the Sainbiose laboratory and the CIS Biomat department.
Around fifty spectators attended, and parents and grandparents were just as curious as the children! Participants had a mission: to repair a broken bone when it cannot heal on its own. A quiz helped them understand how bones remodel, then Nathalie Douard presented concrete examples of ceramic materials used for hip prostheses or as bone substitutes.
