For decades, damaged joint cartilage has been a one-way street toward pain, stiffness, and eventually metal and plastic replacements. Now researchers are uncovering ways to coax the body into ...

Osteoarthritis, a painful condition where bone grinds against bone due to cartilage degradation, affects over 500 million people worldwide, with the knee being the most commonly afflicted joint, ...

Orthopaedic treatment is shifting as regenerative therapies focus on biological healing rather than mechanical repair.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A team from National Taiwan University Hospital performed tracheal repair using a frozen donated aorta, enabling tracheal cartilage regeneration and marking a major advance in ...

The ankle's ability to regenerate cartilage uses the same mechanisms that enable some animals to grow new limbs, and it could be harnessed to repair cartilage in knees and hips hobbled by ...

Recently, a research team from Chongqing Medical University, led by Prof. Wei Huang, Dr. Wei Bao, and Dr. Yiting Lei, has successfully developed a novel engineered extracellular matrix (eECM) to ...

DALLAS -- Mavericks forward Chandler Parsons underwent surgery Friday to repair cartilage in his right knee, the team announced. According to the team's news release, a timetable for Parsons' return ...

Cartilage is the body’s most stubborn tissue. Once it wears away, it’s usually gone for good. This biological dead-end is the ...