All Articles Tagged As: cartilage

Stem cells offer cartilage repair hope for arthritis sufferers (4/14/2008)

Bone stem cells may be harnessed to repair the damaged cartilage that is one of the main symptoms of osteoarthritis ...> Full Article

Cardiff stem cell expertise showcases at national conference (4/12/2008)

Cardiff University research will be showcased at an annual scientific conference celebrating the latest and best in UK stem cell science ...> Full Article

Embryonic stem cells used to grow cartilage (9/7/2007)

Method is first to yield cartilage-like cells, engineer human cartilage ...> Full Article

Scientists Invent Novel Hydrogels For Repairing And Regenerating Human Tissue (7/21/2007)

University of Delaware scientists have invented a novel biomaterial with surprising antibacterial properties that can be injected as a low-viscosity gel into a wound where it rigidifies nearly on contact - opening the door to the possibility of delivering a targeted payload of cells and antibiotics to repair the damaged tissue. ...> Full Article

UCSF Opens Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center (6/16/2007)

The treatment of cartilage injuries is one of the most difficult challenges facing orthopaedic surgeons. Clinicians and researchers at UCSF are combining forces to establish a multidisciplinary center to meet this challenge. "The UCSF Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center is unlike any other in the region," says UCSF orthopaedic surgeon Hubert Kim, MD, PhD. ...> Full Article

Tissue Engineered Scaffolding Allows Reproduction of Cartilage Tissue (5/11/2007)

A new study examines the use of tissue-engineered scaffolding made of cartilage cells, which have a limited ability to heal naturally, to replace defective cartilage tissue. ...> Full Article

Scientists Progress In Successful Tissue Engineering (3/26/2007)

Tissue engineering is a relatively new field of basic and clinical science that is concerned, in part, with creating tissues that can augment or replace injured, defective, or diseased body parts. The approach to fabricating the tissues involves adding specific cell types to grow on a polymer scaffold having the shape of the tissue to be restored. The scaffold gradually disappears, while the cells continue developing in the scaffold shape. With the use of non-human animal cells, there has been considerable recent progress made in the engineering of skin, bladder, cartilage, and several other tissues. ...> Full Article

Woven Scaffolds Could Improve Cartilage Repair (2/27/2007)

Using a unique weaving machine of their design, Duke University Medical Center researchers have created a three-dimensional fabric "scaffold" that could greatly improve the ability of physicians to repair damaged joints with the patient's own stem cells. ...> Full Article

Using Stem Cells to Heal Joint Injuries (2/6/2007)

Biomedical sciences professor Dean Betts and doctoral candidate Thomas Koch with the University of Guelph, are trying to isolate and manipulate stem cells in horses in hopes of repairing cartilage damage. ...> Full Article

Cell therapy for cartilage repair (1/11/2007)

PhD student Jeanine Hendriks of University of Twente’s Institute for Biomedical Technology has developed a better method of growing cartilage. ...> Full Article

Cloned Knee Cartilage (7/5/2006)

Scientists led by Antony Hollander, ARC Professor of Rheumatology & Tissue Engineering at Bristol University in South West England have successfully grown and implanted knee cartilage into 23 patients. The process started by removing health cartilage from 23 patients. The cartilage is then grown for 14 days in a culture. The researchers then deposited the cartilage cells onto a esterified hyaluronic acid scaffold. They were grown on the scaffold for another 14 days. ...> Full Article