Verigen launches cartilage repair service
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Verigen has launched its autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) service in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. ACI was developed at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and involves taking healthy cartilage from the good knee, culturing and multiplying the chondrocytes in a laboratory and returning the cells to the bad knee to repair the cartilage.