The very first fossils of this species -- found by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at Hadar in 1973 -- were the parts of a knee joint. Like a human knee, it could "lock," allowing its owner to ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Textbooks will tell you that the human body contains 206 bones. But sometimes, there are 208. The fabella, a small bone in a tendon behind the knee, was lost over ...

A tiny knee bone often found in people with a common type of arthritis may have helped humans evolve from walking on all fours to standing upright, scientists believe. Not much is known about the ...

Cartilage grown from human nose cells has been used to repair serious KNEE injuries. Engineered cartilage from nasal septum cells helped treat "complex" damage to the articular cartilage which is ...

This low turnover was observed in menisci from patients with knee osteoarthritis and in healthy menisci. Conclusion This study provides evidence that essentially no remodelling occurs in the adult ...