by International Society for Stem Cell Research A potentially alternative treatment for OA, a debilitating joint disease that affects more than 500 million people worldwide, is the regeneration of cartilage from stem cells. Learn more in Stem Cell Reports about the new work from Zhonghan Li and colleagues that focused on so-called limb bud progenitor...
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT VIDEO: A RABBIT HOPS ALONG A TREADMILL, STIMULATING A PIEZOELECTRIC CHARGE IN ITS BIOENGINEERED KNEE. THE CHARGE ENCOURAGES THE REGROWTH OF FRESH, MECHANICALLY ROBUST CARTILAGE, MAKING THE KNEE AS STRONG AND FUNCTIONAL AS IT WAS BEFORE IT WAS INJURED. CREDIT: THANH NGUYEN/UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT AND UCONN HEALTH UConn bioengineers successfully regrew cartilage...
