{"id":388062,"date":"2026-04-20T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:02:08","slug":"worlds-first-trial-of-regenerative-knee-treatment-set-to-begin-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388062\/","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.newsbeep.com\/nz\/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":388063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[28246,1888,134,527,1759,15439,111,139,69,72565,1551,2766,54,17450],"class_list":{"0":"post-388062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-begin","9":"tag-first","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-japan","13":"tag-knee","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-regenerative","18":"tag-set","19":"tag-treatment","20":"tag-trial","21":"tag-worlds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}