Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

However, upon digging deeper, Plikus realized that they were a completely new type of fat-laden cartilage cells that formed the pliable ... the team published their report today in Science. 3 These ...

Cartilage is a soft, spongy connective tissue. The articular capsule prevents wear and tear on the bones. The bones in a synovial joint are connected by ligaments, which: are a type of connective ...

Six millimeter diameter with 3 mm depth cartilage was dissected ... required to investigate the efficacy of different types of cells in cartilage defects with different diameters and depths ...

With this information, specific cell type(s), with well characterized ... et al. Engineering three-dimensional cartilage- and bone-like tissues using human dermal fibroblasts and macroporous ...

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