In the press release, an equine reference:
“This innovative treatment was first tested in an equine study conducted by Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, which demonstrated that EpiBone’s graft integrated better with surrounding cartilage than the current gold standard of using donor tissue. Those findings were shared in April at the Focus Meeting of the International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society.”
This is no different than autologous cartilage used in humans and has numerous studies done in a variety of animals, including horses going back 20 years.
The first thing I thought about when I saw the article was what happened almost 30 years ago. I was at Cornell (The PI for EpiBone was there as well, we worked together clinically). She had been working on an arthritis project with one of the senior clinicians. Some writer got ahold of the story and published about their “knee replacement kit”. It was very early research, but we were inundated for calls inquiring about our “knee replacement kit”. I’m sure they have come a long way since those days, but I’m guessing they are about to get a ton of phone calls again 
for something that is just entering testing…
I hope they are successful, I’m getting to the point where I could use it myself!
Thanks for sharing this. I had ankle surgery with micronized bio cartilage allograft chondrocytes with BMA (amongst other repairs) this winter and have been nerding out about cartilage ever since! My mom joking kept telling me if I was a horse we would have just put me down by now 
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