Cartilage from Stem Cells
January 1, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
For millions of aging athletes and millions more of arthritis sufferers, an ability to regrow their own shock absorbing cartilage would be good news indeed. That is what researchers at Duke University Medical Center have done by demonstrating chondrocyte differentiation in induced-pluripotent stem cells. Moreover, they used a green fluorescent protein expression to show when the stem cells had become chondrocytes. MORE
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