Tissue engineering has been providing an alternative to the current problems in conventional practices of transplantation and tissue reconstruction. The topic about finding the right architecture for more complex structures has been a major interest in the recent times. There are many researchers working on this problem, and I had the chance to speak to one on this episode. Aysegul and her team using animal sources, have developed a scaffold for tendons which can be used as an off-the-shelf product. The method utilises a protocol called decellularization. Although decellularization has existed for a while, their protocol is a milder version which retains the “biochemical and biomechanical properties” of the developed tendon scaffold. She is an amazing researcher, but moreover, and amazing human being. Currently, being done with her postdoctoral studies in developing scaffolds in a more sustainable way, she helps us understand the importance of having sustainable biotech processes. You can read her work in porcine achilles tendon scaffolds here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468498820300019