Your knee contains articular cartilage, which lines your bones and allows you to move without pain or friction. Knee cartilage damage occurs when your articular cartilage chips or wears away. In ...

Osteoarthritis is one of the most expensive and disabling conditions in modern medicine, driving joint replacements and ...

One of the challenges of treating patients with knee injuries is that once knee cartilage is damaged, it’s damaged for good. This cartilage, which is crucial to smooth and painless mobility in the ...

In osteoarthritis of the knee, cartilage that should cushion the bones erodes, leaving people in pain. Anti-inflammatory drugs can offer some relief, but they can’t cure the disease or bring back ...

Cartilage coats the outside surface of your bones to allow the bones to glide smoothly at the point where they meet (the joint). It also provides cushioning to absorb shock and avoid joint injuries ...

Injured cartilage can take the body a long time to repair, but back in 2014 we looked at a promising study where scientists created grafts from nasal cartilage cells and deployed them in damaged knees ...

A newly developed biomaterial might be able to treat crippling arthritis by prompting the growth of new cartilage, a new study suggests. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News A newly developed ...

Here are four things to know. 1. Cartilage defects can occur from the overuse or straining of the knee beyond its normal range of motion. 2. The product, Maci, relies on tissue engineering to grow ...

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease which commonly impacts the knees, hands, hips, neck and lower back. This is the first of two stories describing recent progress in understanding the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--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 ...

Cartilage is a connective tissue composed of chondrocytes embedded in an extracellular matrix of collagen, proteoglycan and elastin fibres. In joints, cartilage functions to reduce the friction ...