For the first time ever, an anti-aging drug is providing hope for millions who suffer from this common condition.

An experimental inhibitor regrew cartilage in aged mice, opening up an alternative to arthritis and prosthetics.

For decades, damaged joint cartilage has been a one-way street toward pain, stiffness, and eventually metal and plastic replacements. Now researchers are uncovering ways to coax the body into ...

A new study shows that engineered, cell-free cartilage can safely support bone regeneration without provoking immune ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford-led study finds aging protein blocker regrows knee cartilage. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Knee cartilage usually ...

ST. LOUIS — A newly FDA-approved procedure allows patients to regrow their own knee cartilage using autologous cell implantation. The treatment, known as MACI (Matrix Autologous Chondrocyte ...

Blocking a protein linked to aging helped older mice regrow knee cartilage without using stem cells, research from Stanford University in California shows. Blocking the protein 15-PGDH also increased ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a special episode (first released on December 12, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Approximately 800,000 knee replacement ...

Animation describes how specialized cells from the nose can, once implanted, regrow cartilage in the knee. This animation relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 27, 2014, issue of Science ...

Cartilage is the body’s most stubborn tissue. Once it wears away, it’s usually gone for good. This biological dead-end is the ...