Source: Daily Telegraph
(Filed: 18/12/2005)
Summary:
Scientists are predicting a "cure" for arthritis within the next decade after they successfully grew human cartilage from a patients' own stem cells for the first time. The cells were taken from the bone marrow of pensioners undergoing National Health Service replacement surgery due to the disease. Crucially, the new technique is expected to overcome problems of transplant rejection because the patient's own cells would be used to create the cartilage.
