{"id":444017,"date":"2026-04-20T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/444017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:21:13","slug":"worlds-first-trial-of-regenerative-knee-treatment-set-to-begin-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/444017\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World&#8217;s first&#8217; trial of regenerative knee treatment set to begin in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Method uses 3D-printed tissue to repair damaged bone and cartilage<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260419N Cyfuse\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Cyfuse Biomedical uses 3D printing to make transplant material from human cells. (Photo by Satoshi Kawahara)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Physicians in Japan are set to begin human tests of a regenerative treatment designed to repair damaged knee bone and cartilage at the same time, providing a potential alternative to joint replacement surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care Method uses 3D-printed tissue to repair damaged bone and cartilage Cyfuse Biomedical uses 3D printing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[98851,18,24244,135,475,474,19,17,386,66262,93,32294,94,43780,96586],"class_list":["post-444017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-begin","tag-eire","tag-first","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-knee","tag-regenerative","tag-set","tag-treatment","tag-trial","tag-worlds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116434651768629707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}