A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in history.

1 According to popular medical textbooks, cartilage is made up of only one type of specialized cell called a chondrocyte, which is small and secretes large quantities of extracellular matrix, giving ...

Lipocartilage cells have been hiding in plain sight for more than 160 years. In 1857, a German zoologist named Franz von Leydig reported that the cartilage tissue in a rat’s ear contains large ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of tissue, a soft and flexible ‘fatty cartilage’ that could revolutionize the ...

Remarkably, after three days of treatment, the cartilage cells began producing essential protein components critical to their repair process. The study also highlighted that the motion of these ...

"After three days, the human cells exposed to the long assemblies of more mobile molecules produced greater amounts of the ...

Koay EJ and Athanasiou KA (2008) Hypoxic chondrogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells enhances cartilage protein synthesis and biomechanical functionality. Osteoarthritis Cartilage ...