Dutch are doing a one-step Autologous Chondrocyte knee repair with harvested stem cells

INSTANT AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE REPAIR (Orthopedics This Week)
Instant Autologous Chondrocyte Repair!
The orthopedics department at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands has just figured out how to do autologous chondrocyte knee repair in a ONE procedure. Up until now, using the patient’s own chondrocytes to repair knee cartilage required two operations—one to harvest the chondrocytes and after culturing, another procedure to implant them (aka: Carticel).
The team, led by Professor Daniël Saris, bypassed most of the Carticel approach by surgically removing cartilage cells from damaged knees and then m...