Using cells from the cartilage in patients’ noses, Swiss doctors have successfully made patches to treat 10 adults whose knee cartilage was damaged by injury. Two years after the transplants, most of ...

Injured cartilage can take the body a long time to repair, but back in 2014 we looked at a promising study where scientists created grafts from nasal cartilage cells and deployed them in damaged knees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tale as old as time - an athlete suffers a devastating knee injury, and their dreams are suddenly in jeopardy. Whether it’s an ...

Treating knee joint defects with cartilage from the nose: The University Hospital in Würzburg is working on the approval of this procedure. They received funding of 2.3 million euros for this purpose.

Mumme M, Barbero A, Miot S, et al. Can engineered cartilage grafts produced from nasal cartilage cells be used to resurface damaged knee cartilage? The authors report the results of an initial trial ...

Having already demonstrated that a small amount of cartilage taken from the nose can be used to repair injured knees, researchers will soon commence a clinical trial to investigate whether the ...

Injuries to the articular cartilage in different joints, including the knee, are painful and limit mobility. In response, researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel are ...

Cartilage cells from the nasal septum can not only help repair cartilage injuries in the knee -- according to researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel, they can ...

THURSDAY, Oct. 20, 2016 -- Using cells from the cartilage in patients' noses, Swiss doctors have successfully made patches to treat 10 adults whose knee cartilage was damaged by injury. Two years ...