fettle Join The Lab

( Repair, before replacement. )

Notes From Fettle

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June 18, 2026

Scaffold, Not Splint

  • Lab Notes
  • Method

When we describe our work on load-bearing cartilage to people outside the lab, the same question arrives first: “So you grow spare parts?”

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Coverage Beyond The Lab

April 29, 2026

Anya Sørensen on The Long Bench

The Long Bench

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February 11, 2026

Fettle raises a Series A to widen its tendon programme

Bench Memo

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Everything We’ve Written

February 11, 2026

Our Series A

We’ve raised £34.6M to date, we are building repair scaffolds for load-bearing cartilage, and we are hiring.

The Fettle Team

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October 7, 2025

Milestone Paper I

Recovery of mechanical load tolerance in engineered ovine meniscal tissue after twelve weeks

The Fettle Team

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August 19, 2025

Problem Statement and Roadmap

Why we think repair beats replacement.

The Fettle Team

May 6, 2025

Founder Letter

A letter from Anya and Tomas

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Wondering about… our bench, our roadmap, or the team? Just send us a note! Write to us here!