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during the time period when this scaffolding is disappearing
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genuine tissue is being formed in its place.
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That's an advantage of these materials as well,
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that because they're polymers we can control,
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to a fairly high degree,
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how fast they degrade and what products they degrade into.
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This shows you an example of tissue engineering
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where these kinds of materials, I showed you on the last slide,
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so microscopically they'd look like this up on the top panel here.
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Macroscopically, or with your eye,
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this is just a photograph from a camera.
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You could make these thick materials,