Radiocarbon Dating Suggests Joint Cartilage Can't Renew (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Radiocarbon Dating Suggests Joint Cartilage Can't Renew (1 of 3)

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Mass spectrometry equipment for carbon-14 bomb pulse measurements. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 06, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.M. Heinemeier at University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, "Radiocarbon dating reveals minimal collagen turnover in both healthy and osteoarthritic human cartilage."

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Jan Heinemeier PHD and Mette Horsleth MD

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