• Question: at what age did you know that you wanted to be a chemist in the field of polymers?

    Asked by EXPERT to Anne, Rose, Thomas on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Molly, Isla.
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      Anne Canning answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Hello,

      I didn’t set out to specifically to work in polymers, it just turns out they’re quite an important part of lots of research in the field of regenerative medicine so as a result I work with them! Polymers are used as what we call scaffolds, scaffolds provide a structure (like a skeleton) which can be implanted into the body eg. to replace lost tissue. Or they can be covered in cells to support their growth, so they’re really quite cool.

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