UniversityofBath OP t1_jd3kl4j wrote
Reply to comment by Redleaded in Hello Reddit, I’m Nazia Mehrban, a Lecturer in Biotechnology at University of Bath. I design and build materials that are implanted into patients to repair or replace damaged tissues. by UniversityofBath
Hello. This depends on the materials we are designing. For the protein-based materials we are using a technique called 'solid-phase synthesis'. Essentially we start with a solid bead and build our residues/ amino acids (the components that make up a peptide) one by one onto that bead, rather like a pearl necklace! Once we have finished 'synthesising' we remove the 'string of pearls' (the peptide) from the bead.
Redleaded t1_jd966go wrote
Ah thats really cool, I had never heard of that before. Out
of interest are you familiar with electrospinning.
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