The body is pretty good at repairing itself, but some parts of our anatomy struggle to bounce back after an injury. One such material is cartilage – the spongy yet firm connective tissue that keeps ...

So cartilage replacement is not as easy as it sounds on paper. We have a lot of different technologies that we try to regrow cartilage and keep our patients active for longer. So if you think of a ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed a new bioactive material that successfully regenerated high-quality cartilage in the knee joints of a large-animal model. Although it looks like a ...

Growing cartilage tissue in the lab could help patiens with injuries, but it is very hard to make the tissue grow in exactly the right shape. A new approach could solve this problem: Tiny spherical ...

Knee cartilage damage remains one of the most stubborn problems in orthopedic medicine. Unlike many other tissues in the body ...

In November 2021, Northwestern University researchers introduced an injectable new therapy, which harnessed fast-moving "dancing molecules," to repair tissues and reverse paralysis after severe spinal ...

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 ...

Researchers have been working on taking cartilage cells from the nose and developing it into tissue that can be implanted elsewhere. After success in animals, two people received this treatment using ...

I learned the hard way that cartilage problems can sideline even the toughest athletes. During my NFL career, I went through more than a few knee surgeries and dealt with the frustration of being told ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a special episode (first released on December 12, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Approximately 800,000 knee replacement ...