The self-repair of injured cartilage is difficult for several reasons, foremost of which is the lack of blood supply to the tissue. Therapeutic efforts aimed at cartilage repair are often not optimal.

Osteoarthritis, a condition that causes pain and reduced mobility in joints such as the knees and fingers, is one of the most ...

Two innovative new developments out of the same laboratory have demonstrated that degraded cartilage can be repaired and regrown, first by using "dancing molecules" to target the proteins needed for ...

A newly identified molecular player may help explain how cartilage in the jaw joint resists inflammatory damage.

Animal studies have shown that some cartilage cells can transition to a bone-like phenotype, challenging the belief that bone cells arise solely from ...