Our outer ears and those of other mammals are made of a subtype of cartilage called elastic cartilage. It is more flexible ...

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 ...

It also presents a novel therapeutic approach for accelerating the healing of defective cartilage and promoting the regeneration of hyaline cartilage. The findings of the study have been published ...