When did people get so tldr-brained that they get angry that the headline doesn't convey they entirety of the story? Publishers are trusting the audience not to take away conclusions from only a headline and the audience is failing badly.
I think Science Direct just recirculates the news, perhaps to keep interest in topic but for folks who are looking for a solution like this, its just clickbait disappointment.
Science Direct is worse than that, they don't keep tabs on studies, they just regurgitate university press releases that exaggerate the magnitude of the findings to make grant proposals seem better than they are. Makes for an exciting frontpage with all the breakthroughs solving the mysteries of the universe while also building popular misconceptions about how scientific inquiry really works and eventually fatigue and apathy with people dismissing all studies as p-hacked or flip-floppy
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[ 89.6 ms ] story [ 141 ms ] threadFucking headlines.
It is always going to be “in mice”
Cool news does happen. Headlines like these are a disservice.
Science doesn't simply solve the problem you have. It has to walk the path to get there.
For interested folks, this is the Stanford publication from last year: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/joint-cartila...
And, https://epirium.com/ is the company with which one of the researchers (Helen Blau) is associated.