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

Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

Cartilage of articular joints grows and matures ... including the formation of more consistent hyaline-like repair tissue, the use of nonimmunogenic cells and tissues, enhanced integration with ...