There is hope that the bioactive material can eventually be used to repair and regenerate damaged cartilage in humans, avoiding the need for procedures like full knee replacements. It can help in ...

Humans, unlike some lucky members of the animal kingdom, have a very limited ability to regrow damaged or missing body parts. But a study published yesterday (October 9) in Science Advances finds that ...

it can then become bone on bone arthritis, what you alluded to with knee replacements. Cartilage is an interesting tissue in that it cannot heal itself. It cannot regrow itself. So all the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Once knee cartilage is damaged it cannot heal or regrow itself, and surgeries for knee cartilage damage have risen nearly 40% over the last decade. This is why ...

Animation describes how specialized cells from the nose can, once implanted, regrow cartilage in the knee. This animation relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 27, 2014, issue of Science ...

Damage to the articular cartilage in kids most often shows up in middle and high school. Here is an update. The articular cartilage is the bearing surface on the ends of bones in all ...

Healthcare institutions and clinics in Singapore are only allowed to conduct stem cell therapy in the context of a research study and not as a mainstream clinical service for cartilage repair.

To find treatment for knee pain, researchers are using an innovative artificial protein to regenerate the meniscus, a soft half-moon-shaped cartilage ... of the meniscus can have deleterious ...