The body is pretty good at repairing itself, but some parts of our anatomy struggle ... Over time, the translucent or 'hyaline' components of cartilage can become heavily degraded, resulting ...

But that new cartilage tended to be fibrous rather than the native smooth stuff in knees called “hyaline” cartilage. It broke down quickly. Newer methods rely on gluing transplanted cartilage ...

Some body parts are made almost entirely of cartilage ... Elastic cartilage, fibrocartilage, and hyaline cartilage can all be damaged. For example, a slipped disk is a type of fibrocartilage ...

This hyaline-like cartilage more closely recreates the wear characteristics and durability of normal hyaline cartilage than the fibrous or fibrocartilage repair tissue formed by pluripotential ...

The meniscus safeguards the hyaline cartilage that lines the knee joint ... The menisci attach to such parts of your leg tissues to help them stay in place when you move. The medial meniscus ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a new way to grow cartilage from stem cells and guide it into basically any shape required. The breakthrough could lead to better ways to patch up injuries.

New research shows that an injectable goo can repair cartilage damage in animals' joints within six months. Scientists are now developing the tech for use in humans. When you purchase through ...

Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

When it comes to repairing human bodies, there’s one major difficulty: spare parts are hard to come by ... Current treatments involve taking a sample of cartilage from the ribs from the patient ...

UAB Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Associate Professor Amit Momaya, M.D., published a study evaluating if similar inflammatory gene patterns exist between the synovium, hyaline cartilage, and blood ...