Lab Bio-Prints living human cartilage built using a patient’s own stem cells

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LAB BIO-PRINTS LIVING HUMAN CARTILAGE (Orthopedics This Week)
In a major step forward researchers have succeeded in creating living, human cartilage that they grew on a laboratory chip. This development brings them closer to their ultimate goal which is creating replacement cartilage for patients with osteoarthritis. The process used bioprinting technology.
Leader of the research group is Rocky Tuan, Ph.D., director of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He said that creation of the artificial cartilage required three main eleme...

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