Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

Elastic materials are useful in lots of ways: Similar to how tires and sneakers grip the road, a rubber band can help you grip the lid of a jar to make it easier to open. Your body’s cartilage is your ...

Published in Nature by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the study connects the elastic cartilage in mammalian ears to the same rare tissue found in fish gills. To explore this ...