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Nose cells fix knee cartilage

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Swiss doctors took healthy tissue from people’s noses to make grafts that can function like healthy joint cartilage (shown) and use it to repair knees.

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By Helen Thompson

- More than 2 years ago

Using nasal cartilage cells to repair joints is nothing to sniff at.

It has worked in goats.