Ulster Star
News & Media Agency in Lisburn, County Antrim
Disabled people could soon re-grow damaged or diseased limb joints, said the Daily Mirror. The newspaper said that the prospect of a new technique, using people's own stem cells rather than transplanted ones offers hope to millions suffering crippling pain. The study behind this news attempted to grow new cartilage in rabbits by drawing the rabbits own circulating stem cells to a scaffolding of bone-like substances implanted into their shoulder joints. To assess the technique the researchers then obserADVERTISEMENT ved the rabbits movement and took samples from the joint to see if new cartilage had formed.