• Question: What the most common tissue you grow?

    Asked by rosiejoy123 to Jen on 15 Mar 2013.
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      Jennifer Paxton answered on 15 Mar 2013:


      I grow tendon and ligament tissue in the lab so that’s the only ones I have experience of. Lots of other people work on different tissues though! Skin is a very common one, and there are a couple of tissue engineered skin grafts that can be grown and used to treat burns! Other tissues have been grown in labs and transplanted into people like artificial bladders and even an artificial trachea!

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