GROWING WOOL IN THE LABORATORY
(N.Z. Press Associatioit—Copy right) SYDNEY, August 28. Scientists can now produce test tube wool that is not synthetic, according to a statement at the International Wool Textile Research Conference in Sydney yesterday. In a discussion on the biological aspects of the wool industry, Mr A. G. Lyne, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, described to delegates how wool was grown in the laboratory. . He said that small pieces of shoulder skin from unborn lambs were kept sterile and fed with fowl plasma and a chick embryo extract. The skin pieces were transferred to a new plasma and extract every four days, c and they lived for nearly six weeks. Under laboratory treatment the skin was made to develop normally and produce wool.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27750, 30 August 1955, Page 3
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