Growing Human Cartilage

Growing Human Cartilage

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have just recently found how to grow functional human cartilage from stem cells that came from human bone marrow tissue. The researchers produced cartilage from stem cells by coping the development of tissue cells. Scientists worked together to come up with a new approach for the engineering process and preform the process. Their new approach involved mimicking another natural development process. In the past, researchers have only been able to make cartilage out of animals cells, but once they changed their engineering approach, they were finally able to produce human cartilage. This study is useful because it can be used for repairing damaged or flawed cartilage. This study has also been helpful in engineering other tissues.

NOS themes:
-science is collaborative
-importance of repeatability
-role of curiosity

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