HARD SCIENCE BEHIND PRP CRAZE? (Orthopedics This Week)
A team of researchers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wanted to see what hard science may exist behind the platelet rich plasma (PRP) craze.
Their work, “Effect of Platelet-Rich Plasma on Chondrogenic Differentiation of Adipose- and Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells,” appears in the July 23, 2018 edition of Tissue Engineering Part A.
Rocky Tuan, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, explained to OTW, “In recent years, there have been many...