Building a New Hip: Cartilage Grown on a Woven Polymer
Building a New Hip: Cartilage Grown on a Woven Polymer
Collections: Image Award Winners
2012 Award Winner
Benjamin L. Larson, Hyoungshin Park, Farshid Guilak, Jean F. Welter, Robert Langer and Lisa E. Freed
Koch Institute at MIT
Bright Field Light Micrograph
Damaged cartilage has very limited capacity for self-repair, and must often be treated with total knee or hip replacement surgery. Here, researchers grow cartilage from adult stem cells in the lab, creating a construct that could fuse naturally to bone to repair joint injury.
Video
Benjamin Larson explains how and why he captured his image of cartilage grown in the laboratory.
