and the most recent thing I came across from last year:
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL): Very Close To Human Trials
2017
https://www.rdmag.com/news/2017/11/how-close-are-scientists-regrowing-damaged-limbs
Dr. Cato Laurencin’s work in the previously uncharted territory of regrowing bones, tendons and ligaments.
the potential in the polymer technology for regrowing bones.
After successfully modeling how to regrow an ACL — which about 200,000 Americans injure each year — Laurencin has attempted the procedure in rabbits that he says are “running around and doing well.”
It has also been in one human patient who has had the regrown ACL for 3 years.
Laurencin says that he is now working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start human trials.
Laurencin’s work regrowing ACLs was named one of the top scientific discoveries to change the world by National Geographic Magazine
so even if you’re a graft patient, looks like it’s only a matter of time before you can have your ACL back.
