Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Monash University and RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology have used a combination of small molecules to ...

The repair of large bone defects and damaged cartilage remains a significant clinical challenge, with current strategies unable to reliably generate the cells that make bone and cartilage. Now ...

Two years ago, Professor Prasad Shastri and his collaborators developed amethod for growing new bone and cartilage without using any expensive orcomplicated machines. Their method is brilliantly ...

The adult human skeletal system consists of 206 bones, as well as a network of tendons, ligaments and cartilage that connects them. Teeth are made of dentin and enamel and are part of the skeletal ...

And fat cells are easy to harvest — much easier than bone marrow. One pound of fat removed from a patient’s abdomen can yield up to 200 million stem cells, a more than adequate supply for ...

Unlike bone, cartilage does not grow back, ... Growing cartilage -- no easy task New nanoscopic material enables cartilage to do what it doesn't do naturally ...

Scientists have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold, which recently went into clinical trials ...

Microfracture: poking holes in the bone beneath cartilage to encourage a flow of the blood into damaged cartilage. It’s low-risk but less durable – better than nothing, Frank says.

Deviated septum: When the nasal septum – the bone and cartilage that divide the nasal cavity of the nose in half – is significantly off center, or crooked, making it hard to breathe.

Cartilage is an important structural component of the body. It is a firm tissue but is softer and much more flexible than bone. Cartilage is a connective tissue found in many areas of the body.

Vomeronasal cartilage, also known as Jacobson’s cartilage, connects the nasal septum (the wall of cartilage that separates the two airways of the nose) and the vomer bone (a thin, flat bone that ...