Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of degenerative joint disease in the world, affecting more than 27 million people in the US and costing nearly over two hundred billion dollars annually.

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis develops rapidly after joint injury, yet current treatments largely address symptoms rather ...

The articular cartilage and meniscus in the knee joint are critical for painless movement, but these tissues’ have low regeneration capacities, rendering them vulnerable to injury and osteoarthritis ...

Researchers in Sweden have engineered a cell-free cartilage scaffold that can guide the body to rebuild damaged bone. By removing the cells but preserving the structure and natural growth signals, the ...

Two innovative new developments out of the same laboratory have demonstrated that degraded cartilage can be repaired and regrown, first by using "dancing molecules" to target the proteins needed for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even though the recently launched EU project ENCANTO (“magic” in Spanish) has nothing to do with the Disney movie of the same name, the study topic might sound like magic to the layman. "We take a ...

Osteoarthritis is usually framed as the price of just getting older. Many people imagine a knee that slowly wears down, then never recovers. That picture is familiar, yet it is too simple.

A new therapy that first made headlines in 2021 is now showing potential to heal human cartilage. Developed by scientists at Northwestern University, the technique was initially created to repair ...