Regenerative medicine is taking a leap forward with cartilage grafts derived from nasal cartilage

The Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel announced today that they have delivered the first surgical procedure for the treatment of osteoarthritis in humans. The procedure called Nasal Chondrocyte Tissue-Engineered Cartilage, or N-TEC, offers an innovative alternative for healing limited knee cartilage lesions and addressing degenerative OA cases…