More Cartilage Digging brings me more on Jennifer Elisseeff's work

Here is an extremely useful breakdown about Jennifer Elisseeff's work on cartilage repair with some good diagrams to go with it.

With tissue engineering and specifically in the field of stem cell research targeting cartilage repair, the research has emerged as a field to replace tissues and organs lost by disease, trauma, or congenital abnormalities. Attempts have been made to engineer many tissues including skin, cartilage, bone, nerve, cardiovascular valves and conduits, and liver. Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff and her colleagues have
pioneered the regeneration of cartilage for the repair of joints such as the knee.....

Posted on January 5, 2005 05:34 PM