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 ...

This hyaline-like cartilage more closely recreates the wear characteristics and durability of normal hyaline cartilage than the fibrous or fibrocartilage repair tissue formed by pluripotential ...

Hyaline cartilage consists of round chondrocytes ... He says similar 3D printing technologies are being developed for soft tissue damage in the heart, blood vessels and nerves. Eames found in an ...