CLOSING IN ON 3-D PRINTED MENISCUS (Orthopedics This Week)
A damaged meniscus is hard to repair or replace.
As Lauren Dubinsky wrote of researchers working at Duke University to replicate the meniscus, “historically it has been a challenge to create recipes for hydrogels that have the same strength as human cartilage and are 3-D printable.”
Researchers are not there yet but are getting close.
Benjamin Wiley, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at Duke, said in a statement, “We've made it very easy now for anyone to print something that is pretty close in its mechanical properties to car...
