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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers believe the discovery could help treat joint diseases and osteoarthritis Human beings have something in common with salamanders — and it could be the key to treating joint diseases and ...

(Nanowerk News) Roughly 151 million people worldwide suffer from osteoarthritis, meaning that they experience chronic pain, reduced mobility and limited quality of life. Attempts to repair cartilage ...

Cartilage restoration procedures are a viable treatment option for patients over 40 years old who have cartilage damage in their knees, a new study has found. Patients who have cartilage damage in ...

Many people have knee pain during some phase of their life. For children, it usually occurs during growth as the body is getting used to its new size. For teenagers and young adults, knee pain usually ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A new treatment can bring relief for the most common cause of knee pain in young athletes: cartilage damage. Cartilage acts as a shock absorber, but repeated stress can wear ...

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 ...