{"id":99829,"date":"2019-12-16T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T01:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/humans-inner-salamander-capacity-could-regrow-cartilage"},"modified":"2019-12-16T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T01:45:05","slug":"humans-inner-salamander-capacity-could-regrow-cartilage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/humans-inner-salamander-capacity-could-regrow-cartilage","title":{"rendered":"Humans\u2019 \u2018inner salamander\u2019 capacity could regrow cartilage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-inner-salamander-capacity-could-regrow-cartilage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With collagen supplements you can regrow cartilage pretty easily. Most supplements work better than medicine when it comes to tissue repair.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Humans have the ability to regrow cartilage, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>In a way similar to how <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/salamanders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">salamanders<\/a> and other creatures can regrow lost limbs, humans have the capacity to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/repair\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">repair<\/a> and regenerate cartilage in their joints, researchers at Duke Health discovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that an understanding of this \u2018salamander-like\u2019 regenerative capacity in humans, and the critically missing components of this regulatory circuit, could provide the foundation for new approaches to repair joint tissues and possibly whole <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human<\/a> limbs,\u201d said senior author Virginia Byers Kraus, a professor in the departments of medicine, pathology and orthopedic surgery at Duke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With collagen supplements you can regrow cartilage pretty easily. Most supplements work better than medicine when it comes to tissue repair. Humans have the ability to regrow cartilage, a new study has found. In a way similar to how salamanders and other creatures can regrow lost limbs, humans have the capacity to repair and regenerate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}