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How the Nanochon Chondrograft works to repair cartilage

16 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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The Nanochon Chondrograft is a nylon-based 3D-printed scaffold that mimics natural collagen fibers. Its vertical channels guide progenitor cells to align like native cartilage cells, while horizontal channels support cell attachment and tissue integration.

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Well, yeah, you know, I think that, you know, the first most important piece is just the material itself, right? So I mentioned that this nylon composite we've developed has this structure that looks like collagen fibers. So progenitor cells attach to it and then they align along it, you know, much like chondrocytes existing within the collagen structures. But then there are quite a few elements that have been designed into the 3D-printed structure. I think the first and most important one is that we have horizontal and vertical channels, but the vertical channels are larger and they're distinct. So you get like this distinct vertical channel alignment, and you know, that's part of why the CartiHeal device works. It's