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Replacing cartilage with a leaf !
On National public radio, NPR, I heard an Orthopedic surgeon talking about his book about stripping the DNA out of a leaf. He would then inject my DNA in the leaf. Grow it in a Petri dish. Then insert it in the compromised joint. He said it would be mainstream within 2 years. I was driving so I didn't get the name of his book.
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Welcome @tomdel, Wouldn't that be great for all of us with degenerative arthritis in the joints! I'm thinking it's still a long ways from reality and has a lot more clinical trials and studies before it will be available. I did find an article and a study that sound similar to what you describe but it's not about joints.
-- Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science
-- The article references this study --- Crossing kingdoms: Using decellularized plants as perfusable tissue engineering scaffolds: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961217300856
The above articles are from 2017, do you remember the title of the book?