Video credit: UK Research and Innovation
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What’s it like to work with futuristic lab machines that help create medical implants? How do you bioprint something that could go inside the human body?
Zoe meets Jen Adcott, a Specialist Technician in biomaterials at the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials. Jen tests the strength of things like gut tissue and trains scientists on lab equipment that can 3D print cells.
In this episode, Zoe gets to try a bioprinter and learns how Jen turned a passion for hands-on work into a career in science. The work that technicians like Jen support at Royce means that new materials can be created. Materials that can do incredible things from repairing our bodies to making energy cleaner.
Meet the technicians and learn more about what they do.
This is season three of 101 Jobs that change the world, our series on the people and roles that make research and innovation. Watch them all in our playlist: 101 jobs that change the world.
Last updated: 14 May 2025