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Articular cartilage is the stuff in various joints that grinds down. It doesn't regrow, and once it's gone you get the lovely bone-on-bone fun that so many old people are intimately familiar with, leading eventually to a joint replacement.
It appears to me that the best hope for this is with stem cells, but despite googling it and a lot of researchers working on it, I can't find out a likely/possible/hopeful timeline on when this will actually happen and be rolled out en masse. Any good ideas?
It appears to me that the best hope for this is with stem cells, but despite googling it and a lot of researchers working on it, I can't find out a likely/possible/hopeful timeline on when this will actually happen and be rolled out en masse. Any good ideas?
