Cartilage and Bone Regeneration Using Gene-Enhanced Tissue Engineering

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Joint cartilage injury remains a major problem in orthopaedics with more than 500,000 cartilage repair procedures performed yearly in the United States at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. No consistently reliable means to regenerate joint cartilage currently exists. The technologies of gene therapy and tissue engineering were combined using a retroviral vector to stably introduce the human bone...

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