New research suggests injured joints may not be as permanent as once believed, opening fresh strategies to fight osteoarthritis.

Researchers in Sweden have engineered a cell-free cartilage scaffold that can guide the body to rebuild damaged bone. By removing the cells but preserving the structure and natural growth signals, the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Cartilage is an outstanding problem in joint medicine—it’s so persnickety that losing it is often an ...

A research lab at the University of Caen Normandy (France) has succeeded in making cartilage using decellularized apples. The Bioconnect laboratory at the university, which I head, has just published ...

A microscropy image of the new biomaterial. Nanofibers are pink; hyaluronic acid is shown in purple. (Samuel I. Stupp/Northwestern University) (CN) — Scientists at Northwestern University created a ...

Northwestern University researchers have found the second use for an injectable therapy using fast-moving "dancing molecules" to regenerate tissue rapidly, leading the biochemists group to hope ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Wharton’s jelly tissue allografts, which are made from human umbilical cord tissue, may improve outcomes for hip ...

In patients with severe osteoarthritis, cartilage can wear so thin that joints essentially transform into bone on bone — without a cushion between. A new therapy that uses synthetic nanofibers to ...

Ear we go! Scientists 3D print the most true-to-life human ear to date. Researchers in Switzerland have 3D-printed the most ...

(A) UMAP visualization of the 13,363 chondrocytes from healthy human cartilage. Color represents the chondrocyte subset. (B) UMAP visualization of the expression of representative marker genes for ...

In laboratory experiments, researchers have produced ear cartilage that remains form-stable in animal models. Only one ...