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by weeksie 161 days ago
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Always a good call out, but also:

> Human knee tissue collected during joint replacement surgeries also responded positively to the treatment. These samples, which include both the joint’s supporting extracellular scaffolding, or matrix, and cartilage-producing chondrocyte cells, began forming new cartilage that functioned normally.

Also interesting that trials for the blocker have been successful in humans to restore muscle growth.
Good, but what does it mean for tissue samples to function normally? Function as what?
Just think of mice as the staging environment for production humans.
let me be excited for things!