Figure 2 illustrates the fiber organizations in various musculoskeletal tissues, including bone, cartilage, tendon, muscle, ligament, tendon-to-bone insertion, meniscus and IVD. These unique ...

May 17, 2009 Damage to knee cartilage is one of the more common types of sports injuries. Treatment often involves drilling a hole through the cartilage into the bone to stimulate the bone marrow to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and Cambridge University in Cambridge, ...

Scientists have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold, which recently went into clinical trials, ...

Although medical advances over recent years have seen the majority of people surviving heart attacks, the damage done to the heart muscle is irreversible. As a result, most patients eventually succumb ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold could offer ...