Treatments and experimental approaches to repair this articular cartilage have achieved limited results, but currently there is no method to fully restore this type of injured cartilage.

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MIT engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated ...

MIT engineers have made a breakthrough in this area—they’ve developed a method to grow muscle tissue that contracts in ...