Northwestern University scientists have developed a new bioactive material that successfully regenerated high-quality cartilage in the knee joints of a large-animal model. Although it looks like a ...

Cartilage that causes minimal scarring after transplantation has been engineered by researchers. The method depends on deriving chondrocytes, the cells that secrete cartilage, from iPS cells. These ...

Cells from the nasal septum can be used to generate cartilage tissue grafts for knee repair, according to a proof-of-principle study that enrolled 10 patients. The nasal chondrocyte grafts produced ...

In new research, scientists in Japan used fibroblasts isolated from adult mouse skin, and expressed proteins used to induce pluripotency along with a factor that promotes a chondrocyte fate. The ...

Just a few millimetres thick, articular cartilage plays a crucial role in our musculoskeletal system, since it is responsible for smooth (in the truest sense of the word) movement. However, the ...

The successful treatment of focal full-thickness articular defects of the knee has continued to present a formidable challenge, and no traditional treatment method has provided consistent acceptable, ...

The pubic symphysis is a secondary cartilaginous joint (a joint made of hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage) located between the left and right pubic bones near the midline of the body. More ...