In Brooklyn, the small business EpiBone is using 3D printing and bio-fabrication to engineer bone grafts, bringing America closer to the day when we’ll be able to use our own stem cells to grow our bone in the anatomically precise shape we need for a graft.

It’s the next frontier in precision medicine.

Upstate in Green Island, two entrepreneurs at Ecovative have invented a sustainable substitute for plastic foam, a substance that will be littering America’s landfills for centuries because it doesn’t biodegrade.