One possible treatment scientists have been refining is the use of scaffolds in cartilage defects that support the growth of hyaline cartilage. This option has shown promise in small mammals, such ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over ... that this lipid-containing cartilage tissue exists in multiple mammals, including humans," Shouan Zhu, director of the Osteoarthritis Research ...