Scientists find a protein block regrows knee cartilage in mice and human tissue

9 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by ck2

3 Comments

johnathan101

8 hours ago

Regenerating cartilage has been a goal for a long time. The science is exciting, but the real milestone will be whether it works safely in large clinical trials.

ck2

7 hours ago

I'd bet it will work since it worked on human tissue

but there will be unintended side-effects with other muscle and organ growth that will be unacceptable

that protein sounds like nature evolved some kind of rate-limiter

but it's fascinating they found it

maybe it can be safely used for short spurts like a couple weeks at a time

(and I also bet it will become a performance-enhancing drug WADA has to test for)