Biomechanical setup for intervertebral disc tissue culture
In collaboration with AO Research Institute Davos (ARI) and the ETH Zurich, CSEM Tools for Life Sciences have developed a new six degrees of freedom bioreactor that can transmit motions to a tissue sample (an intervertebral disc) to reproduce human body conditions while maintaining the tissue under culture conditions. This is possible thanks to a newly developed sample holder, which can efficiently transmit the motion without damaging the intervertebral disc.