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Hello Dr. Tasciotti,

Thank you so much for doing this AMA. I actually did tissue engineering/regenerative medicine for undergraduate research (Cartilage).

How long do you believe it will take to see tissue engineering/regenerative medicine relevant in an actual clinical setting, to the point where these tissue will actually implanted into a human body?

One of the reasons why I strayed away from doing tissue engineering for my upcoming masters is that I wanted to pursue a more industry related goal, and compared to that of pharmaceutical and orthopaedic implants tissue engineering/regenerative medicine seemed like it wouldn't be relevant in medical industry in a couple decades.

They can range from synthetic to natural materials. But I think in general natural materials like collagen and elastin have better interaction because they are already abundant in the human body. Therefore the integration of these materials has a higher chance of success compared to that of just a synthetic polymer.

However it is not as simple as that because there are other factors that influence biocompatibility of the material such as surface features, chemical composition, mechanical properties, byproducts etc.

Polymerase Chain Reaction

It's a biochemistry analysis to amplify DNA and sometimes utilized to determine types of protein in samples.