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Sticky hydrogel could revolutionize knee surgery
Two teams of researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created a material that can help heal damaged cartilages more effectively. See, when a cartilage gets damaged, it needs all the extra help it can get. It doesn't heal itself like other soft tissues do, so any injury that involves one requires medical intervention. That's why scientists continue to look for better methods and materials to treat cartilage-related injuries, and one technique they came up with is injecting damaged areas with a hydrogel material loaded with either drugs or repair cells.
