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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Scripps Health will investigate the effectiveness and safety of using “scaffold-free” stem cells to repair injured cartilage, a procedure that, if proven effective, could help prevent ...

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 ...

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 ...