Osteoarthritis affects millions of people worldwide. The joint condition often develops with age or after injuries and ...

Stanford scientists discover how blocking 15-PGDH protein regenerates knee cartilage in mice and human tissue, offering hope ...

A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells ...

A single shot that appears to regrow worn knee cartilage and head off arthritis sounds like science fiction, yet early data ...

There's a new procedure approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that can repair cartilage in the knee. The new technique is called matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte implantation, or ...

Using cells from the cartilage in patients’ noses, Swiss doctors have successfully made patches to treat 10 adults whose knee cartilage was damaged by injury. Two years after the transplants, most of ...

Researchers designed a study using muscle-derived stem cells genetically engineered with a therapeutic protein in an effort to repair articular cartilage defects in rats. Damage to articular cartilage ...

A group has proposed a new concept of mechanobiomaterials, which is inspired by the natural phenomenon that biomechanics mediate tissue repair and regeneration. The rationale behind this new concept ...

MIT engineers are excited about a new technique for repairing cartilage that could have significant advantages over the procedure now commonly used. This could affect people disabled by osteoarthritis ...

Pioneering technologies like 3D printing have had a huge impact on the medical world, and now a unique material developed by researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Milano-Bicocca ...

Articular cartilage can be damaged by trauma or degraded by different forms of arthritis. Once damaged, cartilage is challenging to repair and currently impossible to fully regenerate. Advances ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: I’m interested in the new procedure approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that can repair cartilage in the knee. How does it work? Who’s a good candidate for this ...