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 ...

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.

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 ...

αKG induces a relatively reductive state within chondrocytes, promotes the extracellular lactate shuttle into the cells and H3K56 lactylation modification, and positively regulates the expression of ...

Cartilage injuries are a common clinical issue, often caused by trauma, severe infections, or degenerative joint diseases. The lack of direct blood supply to cartilage and limited access to nutrients ...

The therapy works by unleashing fast-moving “dancing molecules” that help jumpstart the body’s natural repair systems. (CREDIT: Shutterstock Images) A new therapy that first made headlines in 2021 is ...

Knee cartilage usually wears down quietly. Over time, that loss can turn walking stairs into a daily calculation. Now a Stanford Medicine-led team reports that blocking a single age-linked protein ...

Treating knee joint defects with cartilage from the nose: The University Hospital in Würzburg is working on the approval of this procedure. They received funding of 2.3 million euros for this purpose.

Researchers showed that extracellular vesicles from menstrual cells stimulate cartilage repair. The new approach offers a ...