Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints ... San Francisco wrote in a commentary that this "long-ignored cartilage type" may "warrant updates to histology and anatomy ...

The body is pretty good at repairing itself, but some parts of our anatomy struggle to bounce ... Over time, the translucent or 'hyaline' components of cartilage can become heavily degraded ...

In the future, a person’s own cells could be used in a 3D printer to make bioprinted cartilage to help repair damaged joints. Brian Eames is a scientist and professor ...