Articular cartilage, the load-bearing tissue of the joint, has limited repair and regeneration potential. The scarcity of treatment modalities for large chondral defects has motivated attempts to ...

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) bioengineers have fabricated cartilage tissue which for the first time mimics the multi-layered structure and cellular functions of natural articular ...

An injection that blocks the activity of a protein involved in aging reverses naturally occurring cartilage loss in the knee ...

Cartilage, a connective tissue found throughout the body, is critical to the function of our joints. Tough yet flexible, it supports load and enables frictionless ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) ROSEMONT, Ill., Feb. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2021 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award was presented to Lin Han, PhD, for research on the structure and function of cartilage ...

A textile-based implant containing cartilage derived from stem cells reduced pain and restored hip joint function to baseline levels in a study of dogs with symptoms of moderate osteoarthritis. A ...

Allograft or autograft osteoarticular transplants are useful tools for treating full-thickness articular cartilage lesions of the knee, according to a prospective analysis of 43 patients. “The current ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of degenerative joint disease in the world, affecting more than 27 million people in the US and costing nearly over two hundred billion dollars annually.

Cartilage resurfacing implant restores hip function in arthritic dogs By Loz Blain September 15, 2021 A group of dogs with moderate osteoartritis, treated with a new dissolving stem cell implant, have ...

During a three-year study on articular (joint) cartilage maturation, researchers at the Gluck Equine Research Center used new genetic techniques to investigate how joint cartilage changes between ...