Aroa has created a biological scaffold from sheep forestomachs, which is surgically implanted to help patients grow new tissue that has been lost because of disease or injury. It already has a handful of products on the market using its Endoform platform, including scaffolds that can be used to help heal diabetic ulcers, hernias and wounds. The advantage of Aroa’s products over other biological scaffolds is that they are substantially cheaper and often also stronger. The scaffolds are made in New Zealand, where sheep are plentiful and they have a unique disease-free status, and exported globally.
