{"id":4943,"date":"2026-01-19T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/eu-uk\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:59:06","slug":"afr-the-company-repairing-human-bone-with-kimberley-pearl-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/eu-uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/19\/afr-the-company-repairing-human-bone-with-kimberley-pearl-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"AFR | The company repairing human bone with Kimberley pearl shells."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The AFR has profiled Orthocell\u2019s increased investment in Marine Biomedical and its novel bone-repair technology, PearlBone\u2122<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, in this article by Tom Rabe titled\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2018The company repairing human bone with Kimberley pearl shells.\u2019<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Orthocell\u00a0Chairman\u00a0John Van Der\u00a0Wielen\u00a0explains that this investment contributes to\u00a0Orthocell\u2019s\u00a0broader strategy to support surgeons with a more complete trauma-repair toolkit spanning nerve,\u00a0tendon\u00a0and bone, while bringing new Australian-made biomedical innovation to international markets.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Here\u2019s\u00a0an excerpt:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIt\u2019s the same market in a sense, and all of the surgeons dealing with trauma will tell you that when you\u2019ve got a gunshot injury or a major trauma from a car accident, you need bone, nerve and tendon,\u201d Van Der\u00a0Wielen\u00a0said.<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With regulatory approvals already secured for Orthocell\u2019s nerve repair device, Remplir\u2122<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0across Australia, the US, Canada,\u00a0Singapore\u00a0and Hong Kong,\u00a0and\u00a0PearlBone\u00a0now progressing toward US approval,\u00a0Orthocell\u00a0is executing a long-term strategy to expand across multiple surgical indications and markets.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/the-company-repairing-human-bone-with-kimberley-pearl-shells-20260116-p5nul6\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Read the article.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFR has profiled Orthocell\u2019s increased investment in Marine Biomedical and its novel bone-repair technology, PearlBone\u2122, in this article by Tom Rabe titled\u00a0\u2018The company repairing human bone with Kimberley pearl shells.\u2019\u00a0 Orthocell\u00a0Chairman\u00a0John Van Der\u00a0Wielen\u00a0explains that this investment contributes to\u00a0Orthocell\u2019s\u00a0broader strategy to support surgeons with a more complete trauma-repair toolkit spanning nerve,\u00a0tendon\u00a0and bone, while bringing new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/eu-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}