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Knee cartilage usually wears down quietly. Over time, that loss can turn walking stairs into a daily calculation. Now a Stanford Medicine-led team reports that blocking a single age-linked protein ...

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ST. LOUIS — A newly FDA-approved procedure allows patients to regrow their own knee cartilage using autologous cell implantation. The treatment, known as MACI (Matrix Autologous Chondrocyte ...

Blocking a protein linked to aging helped older mice regrow knee cartilage without using stem cells, research from Stanford University in California shows. Blocking the protein 15-PGDH also increased ...

The squishy insoles in your favorite pair of sneakers help keep your joints safe from daily wear-and-tear, but over time, that cushioning wears down. The same goes for your cartilage—the fibrous ...

Animation describes how specialized cells from the nose can, once implanted, regrow cartilage in the knee. This animation relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 27, 2014, issue of Science ...

New techniques include a pellet made of coral and a hydrogel that can be pressed around the bone to help eliminate pain. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...