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Thu 06 Jun 2008Crystals hold key to wear-and-wear disease
MYSTERIOUS CRYSTALS could hold clues to the riddle of treating a debilitating joint disease. The tiny shards crop up in the joints of people with osteoarthritis, and a researcher at Dublin City University believes they could be a key to diagnosing and treating the condition.
There is currently no cure for osteoarthritis, a painful disease of the joints that affects around 400,000 people in Ireland, according to Dr Gillian McMahon, a researcher at the Bioanalytical Chemistry and Diagnostics Group in DCU's School of Chemical Sciences.
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