Engineers use high pressure to stimulate growth of new cartilage

Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 13:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Bioengineers at Rice University have discovered that intense pressure - similar to what someone would experience more than a half-mile beneath the ocean's surface - stimulates cartilage cells to grow new tissue with nearly all of the properties of natural cartilage...

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