A three-dimensional woven cartilage scaffold will help replacing knees. Cartilage in your knee absorbs impact as you take step, reduces friction, and keeps everything functioning smoothly. As you take millions of steps regularly so your cartilage wears out with time. This leads to Cartilage degeneration. Cartilage degeneration results in arthritis, which can reduce mobility and cause chronic pain.
It cannot be repaired but research on replacement tissues may soon offer a viable alternative. “If you have arthritis in your hip or knee, we don’t just have to fix a little pothole, we can resurface the entire joint,” said Dr. Farshid Guilak, a Duke University researcher whose team is working on a technique to replace large swaths of existing cartilage with new tissue grown from your own stem cells. The team is currently testing their approach on large animals, and Dr. Guilak expects to…
