Dude?

At one desk he picks up a glass mould that shaped the trachea – windpipe – used in the world’s first synthetic organ transplant.

At another are the ingredients for the revolutionary nanomaterial at the heart of his creations, and just beyond that is a large machine with a pale, gossamer-thin cable inside that’s pulsing with what looks like a heartbeat. It’s an artery.

‘We are the first in the world working on this,’ Seifalian says casually.

‘We can make a metre every 20 seconds if we need to.’