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.

Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) say they have identified a stem cell in the bone marrow of mice that is capable of regenerating both bone and cartilage.