• Question: what do you do with the cells you use?

    Asked by MARK111 to Amanda on 6 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Amanda Barnes

      Amanda Barnes answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      I use the cells to look at different ways of repairing cartilage.

      Cartilage covers the ends of your bones and helps your bones slide across each other when you move your joints. In older people and people who have had sporting injuries the cartilage is damaged and painful. The cartilage can’t repair itself.

      So i’m trying to grow cartilage from the cells and find ways of repairing the damaged cartilage in people.

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