In other instances, patients may require surgical procedures such as cartilage repair, meniscus repair or realignment of the knee joint, known as an osteotomy. Total knee replacement, said Dr ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of tissue, a soft and flexible ‘fatty cartilage’ that could revolutionize the treatment of traumatic injuries, birth defects, and cartilage-damaging ...

The top-down calcification process started with spherical mineral particle formation in the joint surface during early-stage OA (OA-E), followed by fibre formation and densely packed material ...

The clinical treatment of cartilage defects is a significant challenge (Gomez et al., 2020; Mardones et al., 2020; Pattappa et al., 2020), as current methods do not provide an ideal graft for ...

Cartilage development is the formation of cartilage by specialised cells called chondrocytes. These secrete large amounts of the cartilage extracellular matrix, which contains collagen and ...

OA is characterized by degradation of the cartilage tissue in joints. Cartilage comprises two major components, the extracellular matrix (the surrounding proteins that provide structure ...

Laboratory of Biomechanical Orthopedics, Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015, Switzerland ...

I was born missing an ear. What followed was years of well-intentioned violence from a medical system bent on solving the ...

Condylar cartilage promotes mandible growth through endochondral bone formation (Hinton ... Cell samples were plated in a 4-well chamber slide (PEZGS0416, Millipore). The slides were washed with PBS, ...