Sheep’s Wool Helps Repair Bone

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcWuazhvODJ/ The same material that creates lovely sweaters can help repair damaged bone. Prosthodontic specialists at King’s College London have developed a bone-repair scaffold from keratin, the structural protein found in sheep’s wool. The researchers first demonstrated that this material can facilitate the formation of human bone from individual bone cells,…