Duke Researchers have successfully created articular cartilage

Go Duke! Researchers Create Joint Cartilage (Orthopedics This Week)
Step by step researchers are closing in on a major goal in orthopedics—engineering replacement cartilage for joints from stem cells. Building on the work honored with this years’ Nobel Prize in medicine which demonstrated that adult stem cells could be made to take on the properties of embryonic stem cells, researchers at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, have successfully created articular cartilage tissue.
Farshid Guilak, Ph.D., Laszlo Ormandy Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke and Brian O. Diekman, Ph.D.., a po...