News tagged with cartilage cells
Building organs block by block: Tissue engineers create a new way to assemble artificial tissues
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab ...
May 13, 2010 |
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Researchers inject nanofiber spheres carrying cells into wounds to grow tissue
For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 17, 2011 |
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Growing cartilage -- no easy task
Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors. Minimally invasive, the therapy activates ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 01, 2010 |
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New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 11, 2009 |
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Ink-jet printers inspire scientists to make skin
Ink-jet printing technology has inspired scientists to look for ways to build sheets of skin that could one day be used for grafts in burn victims, experts said Sunday.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 20, 2011 |
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Scientists turn stem cells into cells for cartilage repair
(PhysOrg.com) -- Manchester scientists have turned embryonic stem cells into the cells that produce cartilage, which could be used to repair damaged and diseased joints.
Oct 18, 2010 |
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The replacement joint of the future, naturally grown
A pioneering study published Online First in the Lancet has shown that failing joints can be replaced with a joint grown naturally using the host's own stem cells. The work paves the way for a future of naturally grown joints ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Researchers Convert Stem Cells into Cartilage
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ultimate goal is to grow replacement cartilage in a lab that can be used to repair human joints and treat osteoarthritis.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Hope for arthritis patients in fat tissue
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent discovery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- that adult stem cells collected from fat tissue can be converted to cells that will grow cartilage tissue -- has focused ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Penn scientists develop a new way to re-grow cartilage
Every day the world over, runners hit the streets, pounding the pavement. Their knees are taking a pounding, too.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Promoting healing by keeping skeletal stem cells 'young'
Scientists seeking new ways to fight maladies ranging from arthritis and osteoporosis to broken bones that won't heal have cleared a formidable hurdle, pinpointing and controlling a key molecular player to keep stem cells ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Dutch researcher develops new method of stem cell culture
Deborah Schop of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and the MIRA research institute has developed a new method of stem cell culture. With the new method Schop can cultivate stem cells in a closed system. This means ...
May 21, 2010 |
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Amniotic membrane used to repair human articular cartilage
Spanish scientists have proposed using human amniotic membrane as a new tool for repairing damaged human articular cartilage, which heals very poorly because of its low capacity for self-repair. Their research, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Ear to the future: Donated cells transform from lab to mouse
Within a Northeast Ohio lab, a hairless mouse is growing an ear from the cells of a Wadsworth, Ohio, preschooler.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 15, 2011 |
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