Whatever Happened To The Mouse With The Ear On Its Back?
Mouse lacking an immune system with an engineered ear on the back. You may have seen it in a textbook or on TV: a mouse with a human ear on…
Bioartificial Kidneys and Tissue Engineering: Cyborg Future?
UCSFs bioartificial kidney is an exciting breakthrough which circumvents the need for tissue-blood supply, using cyborg-like silicon chips. In this article we explore UCSF’s Kidney Project, the latest applications of tissue engineering, and the…
The Ambitious Future of Tissue Engineering
Over the last several decades, various advances in tissue engineering have allowed for the not so distant possibility of replacing, repairing, or regenerating injured tissues1. Significant progress has been made in understanding…
Tissue Engineering: The Latest 3D Cellular Models for Respiratory Drug Development
Learn how a company in Switzerland is harnessing the latest cell culture technology to build even more predictive 3D cellular models for respiratory disease research. Human respiratory diseases ranging from…
alamarBlue HS and alamarBlue Assays for Cell Viability
alamarBlue HS and alamarBlue Cell Viability Reagents are ready-to-use, non-toxic, resazurin-based solutions that function as cell health indicators by using the reducing power of living cells to quantitatively measure viability.…
AlamarBlue – Cell Viability Assay For 3D Cell Culture
Overview AlamarBlue is a fast assay that can measure cell viability. It is based on resazurin, a compound that upon entering living cells is reduced to resorufin. This reaction is…
Glass Slide Treatment
Print surfaces in bioprinting can have a large impact on your final results . This glass slide treatment protocol can be used for bioprinting with GelMA or PEGDA to keep structures adhered to a…
Immunocytochemistry For 3D Bioprinted Constructs
Overview Immunocytochemistry (ICC) is a laboratory technique that allows for the detection of specific proteins or antigens in cells using selective probes that can be visualized under a microscope. This protocol…
How To Prepare GelMA Bioink (Lyophilized)
Overview Gelatin Methacrylate (GelMA) is a hydrogel composed of denatured collagen that is engineered to crosslink when combined with a photoinitiator, such as LAP. This matrix material is a…
Bioprinting GelMA
Overview GelMA (gelatin methacrylate) is a gelatin-based hydrogel that reacts and crosslinks in the presence of LAP and Allevi blue light technology (1,2). The recommended preparation provided in the…
