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- Scientists found a method to regrow knee cartilage without joint replacement
Blocking an age-related protein restored cartilage in aged mice and prevented osteoarthritis after injuries, while human cartilage began producing new functional tissue.
- Field
- gene therapy
- What they did
- Scientists from Stanford found a way to restore cartilage in aging mice by blocking a protein that accumulates with age, and they observed that human cartilage cells also began producing new functional cartilage with the same treatment.
- Why it matters
- This approach could lead to treating arthritis without joint replacement surgery, as it successfully reversed cartilage loss in older animals and worked on human cells.
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