The following table shows the solutions provided by our Master Unit to several frequent problems or demands of Tissue Engineering researchers using bioreactors:
Problem | Available market solution | Master Unit | Advantages |
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Parallel cultures |
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Fully customizable culture package system
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Bioreactor control | Usually carried out by means of
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Fully integrated touch screen control | No need of external control devices
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Use of additional equipment | Controls, actuators, culture chambers and many other complementary gadgets are usually required for growing cells in other bioreactors configuration | Apart from the Master Unit, the culture package and the tubing and connectors necessary to complete the culture circuit, no other device is needed to work with EBERS bioreactors. | EBERS bioreactors do not require of any additional device to grow cells, which carries
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Use of a CO2 incubator to get the appropriate conditions for cell development. | The need of introducing the bioreactor inside and incubator carries a number of drawbacks as
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EBERS Master Unit gives all the capabilities of a CO2 incubator | No need of a CO2 incubator
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Determination of the flow profile acting on cell populations | A specific purpose software is frequently use to determine the flow profile applied on the cell populations | An easy-to-use software is installed in the integrated control, which is controlled by means of a touch screen | No need of external software, which implies:
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Please visit the technical specifications sheet for further information of the EBERS TEB series.
EBERS bioreactors architecture is thought to provide the researcher a high flexibility in the experiment design.
For such purpose, EBERS bioreactor is formed by two different components:
the TEB Master Unit provides the necessary environmental conditions for cells development, whereas the cell seeded scaffolds are hosted inside an appropriate culture chamber, which determines the position of cells with respect to the established culture media flow.
Function: to provide the appropriate conditions for cell developing under flow conditions including:
Function: to host scaffolds and cells in the appropriate position to be affected by the culture media flow created by the Master Unit in the desired way. EBERS offers culture packages for
Function: to complete the culture circuit. We provide
The EBERS TEB series is a new line of bioreactors designed for cell culturing under flow conditions in Tissue Engineering research.
Aiming to cover the demands of a wide variety of researchers, the TEB bioreactors have been designed following a novel philosophy in the TE bioreactors field: it has been developed as an open system, suitable for many different applications and culturing configurations under flow conditions.
This new approach is based on the use of a master unit which provides the appropriate culture environment, including temperature, C02 and O2 concentration and culture media flow conditions, in which a culture chamber containing the growing cells is introduced.
Thus, EBERS bioreactors are composed of three main parts, i.e.
Master Unit
Provides the appropriate environmental conditions for cell growing including
Interchangeable culture chamber
The wide variety of these chambers that fit in the master unit is the key advantage of the EBERS bioreactor. Some examples are:
Scaffold
As a function of the culture chamber, many different sorts of scaffolds may be used in our bioreactors both for 2D and 3D cell cultures. Just to give some examples, ceramic and polymeric are suitable candidates to be used in our bioreactor.
This new concept of TE bioreactor carries a number of important advantages with respect to the bioreactors available in the market. The most important ones are the following
Versatility and flexibility | The open design of the master unit, which only provides the environmental conditions for cellular development without establishing any limitation to the shape, size or nature of the culture package which will be hosted inside. |
Cost saving | Due to its unique design, the EBERS bioreactor is inexpensive compared to similar equipments, which is a crucial advantage in research. |