Cells from the nasal septum can be used to generate cartilage tissue grafts for knee repair, according to a proof-of-principle study that enrolled 10 patients. The nasal chondrocyte grafts produced ...

Using cells from the cartilage in patients’ noses, Swiss doctors have successfully made patches to treat 10 adults whose knee cartilage was damaged by injury. Two years after the transplants, most of ...

Using nasal cartilage cells to repair joints is nothing to sniff at. It has worked in goats. Now, in the first human trial, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have grown cells ...

Cartilage-making cells in the nose seem to produce a worthy stand-in for the cartilage lost at the tips of bones in damaged knee joints, a study in goats suggests. Patches of cartilage grown from ...

Cartilage grown from human nose cells has been used to repair serious KNEE injuries. Engineered cartilage from nasal septum cells helped treat "complex" damage to the articular cartilage which is both ...

A tale as old as time – an athlete suffers a devastating knee injury, and their dreams are suddenly in jeopardy. Whether it’s ...

Injured cartilage can take the body a long time to repair, but back in 2014 we looked at a promising study where scientists created grafts from nasal cartilage cells and deployed them in damaged knees ...

In small study, doctors used experimental procedure to help aging knees. — -- Millions of Americans suffer from painful knee joints as a result from damaged knee cartilage. Damage can produce ...

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 ...

Like scaffolding that props up a building, scientists are now using temporary frameworks to create custom-designed, complex new organs, which they've successfully implanted in several patients. These ...

THURSDAY, Oct. 20, 2016 -- Using cells from the cartilage in patients' noses, Swiss doctors have successfully made patches to treat 10 adults whose knee cartilage was damaged by injury. Two years ...