The Wool Clip

04/06/2026

Jan is in The Wool clip today .

29/05/2026

Another good reason to support sheep farmers!!

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In a surprising twist for regenerative medicine, the secret to healing broken bones might be found in your sweater. 🐑🦴
Scientists at King’s College London have successfully developed a bone-healing material made entirely from sheep wool. The breakthrough centers on keratin, the structural protein in wool, hair, and nails, which was used to create a scaffold that tricks the body into rebuilding bone tissue.
In recent animal and laboratory trials, this wool-derived material didn't just support bone growth; it produced tissue that more closely resembled healthy, natural bone than any current synthetic or collagen-based alternative. Because wool is naturally renewable and often discarded as waste by the farming industry, this provides a cheap, sustainable, and high-performance source for future medical implants and surgeries.
The most mind-blowing part? The body gradually absorbs the wool scaffold as the real bone takes its place, leaving no foreign hardware behind. This discovery marks a massive leap for orthopedic surgery, offering a future where complex fractures can be "knit" back together using the same biological building blocks as a sheep's coat.
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News Source:
Science Daily – "Scientists turn sheep wool into a bone-healing material in a major medical breakthrough" (May 22, 2026)
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26/05/2026

Susanna is in the Wool Clip today.
It will be lovely and cool in the wool clip .

20/05/2026

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20/05/2026

Linda is in The Wool clip today .

19/05/2026

Brilliant to see this year's Cumbrian Wool Gathering taking shape and we'll be there - just had it confirmed that our stand number is H5. Whether you're visiting Saturday 20th or Sunday 21st, please pop and say Hello. We'll have a wide range of our co-operative members' creations as well as information about our 25th anniversary awards and exhibition. See you soon.

15/05/2026

Linda is in The Wool Clip today .

09/05/2026