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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 08 > Study: Jellyfish protein helps regrow cartilage

Study: Jellyfish protein helps regrow cartilage


February 8, 2009

TOKYO — Mucin, a protein extracted from a Japanese jellyfish, has proven highly effective in regrowing cartilage in joints, scientists in Japan are reporting.

The finding may provide a beneficial use of Nomura’s jellyfish, which have been a damage-causing plague to....

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