UCLA Breakthrough Announced for Stem-Cell Cartilage In what may turn out to be a breakthrough discovery, stem cell researchers from UCLA have...
One Step Closer to Artificial Cartilage Researchers keep inching toward the goal of creating a synthetic articular cartilage—that all...
Specially Treated Sea-Coral Succeeds as Bone Graft Sea coral is back and may be better than ever—as bone graft. Of course, the problem for...
Japan Eases Stem Cell Restrictions Staff of the Australian biotech firm Mesoblast, claimed by its founder to be the biggest player in...
“Patch” Directs Stem Cells to Differentiate Researchers from North Carolina State and Duke University have developed a nanoscale “patch”...
Vietnam Testing Knee Stem Cell Treatment According to Vietweek, Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world doing clinical trials to...
Iowa Bio-Patch Regenerates Bone Researchers at the University of Iowa have tested a “bio patch” that regenerates missing or...
Knee OA Cell Therapy Trials in China Renji Hospital in Shanghai, a tertiary hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University...
Windpipe Recipient Doing Well This is a follow-up on the stem cells and windpipes story. Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, from...
AmnioPUR Gets First U.S. Usage The first U.S. surgical usage of Aurora Spine Corporation’s AmnioPUR took place this October in a...
Biotech Research Surges in Asia A biotech subsidiary has entered into a research collaboration agreement to develop BMP and stem...
Researchers Make Cartilage From Skin Cells The impossible keeps on getting easier. Researchers at Kyoto University, Japan, have found a way...
Stem Cell Trial Begins for ALS Two patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have received stem cell injections to their...
Mesoblast Buys Osiris’ Stem Cell Patents Mesoblast Ltd is spending an initial twenty million in cash for U.S.-based Osiris Therapeutics, ...
Chinese Surgeon Sculpts Nose on Forehead A report from China describes how a Chinese surgeon constructed a nose from a patient’s rib...
Regentis Reports Articular Cartilage Repair That miserable meniscus—the articular cartilage that injures too easily, repairs too slowly if...
Cartilage Regeneration Technology Awarded Patent Protection A Houston-based spinal technology company focused on autologous regrowth of the spinal disc nucleus...
Repeating BMD Tests Shows Little Benefit Repeating bone mineral density (BMD) tests after four years provides little clinical benefit when...
Harvard, Charite to Speed Translational Work The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Berlin-based...
Recalcitrant Stem Cells Meet Their Match First the problem—then a throw of the dart at a solution. As every patient with painful joints...
Cartilage Cell Repair System Granted U.S. Patents PUR Biologics, LLC announces that it had been granted two patents by the U.S. Patent office...
StelKast’s EXp Cleared for Knees StelKast, Inc., a privately held manufacturer and distributor of orthopedic implants for knee and...
FDA Trips Up High Flying MiMedx On August 28, 2013, the FDA sent an unwelcome and surprising letter to Georgia-based allograft...
Stem Cells Assemble Early Stage Human Brain The internet and media that cover medical news have been buzzing about a story, published in the...
3D Printer Makes Human Jawbone Three-D printing of human organs is advancing at an astounding pace. Hangzhou Dianzi University in...
FDA Transfers Some Devices to Biologics Oversight Wound care products are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a device. Effective...
FDA Transfers Some Devices to Biologics Oversight Wound care products are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a device. Effective...
RTI Surgical Implants First Cell-Based Bone Graft RTI Surgical Inc, a surgical implant company that provides surgeons with biologic, metal and...
3-D Printer Plus Stem Cells Equals Cartilage With the help of a 3-D printer, scientists in Melbourne, Australia, report that they have grown...
Versatile Stem Cells Found in Urine Stem cells, it seems, are everywhere. Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's...
