Briefly explain the concept of biocompatibility of biomaterials.

ECM exerts control over many cellular fate processes through class of receptors knows as ____________________.

What is the difference between allogenic and autogenic source of cells?

What is IP? What is license?

Consider the following characteristic growth curve for chondrocytes in vitro as well as the diagram for a tissue-engineered cartilage construct. It is generally thought that chondrocytes can undergo only a 10-fold expansion in ex vivo culture. Given this information, what is the minimal number of chondrocytes required to grow the graft pictured at a final density of 1 X 106 cells/cm3? Calculate the amount of time that it would take to end with the final therapeutic cell number, given your starting population of cells.

You want to enlarge a 3 X 5 photo to C X   What is the value of C?

What are two main types of stem cells in bone marrow? What lineages each differentiate into? You don’t need to write detail lineages, just general information.

What is the difference between deterministic and stochastic models for stem cell proliferation? You may sketch schematic as well to answer this question.

Compute:   

Engineering control of cell functions can be largely exerted through ____________________ interactions.