Concept

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

  • Temperature
  • Relative Humidity
  • Gas concentration (CO₂ and O₂)
  • Culture media flow

• 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:

  • Perfusion chambers
  • Chambers for the culture of blood vessels
  • Existing own-design or commercial devices for culture flow
  • Custom developed culture packages

• 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.