EBERS Medical Technology | A new Tissue Engineering bioreactor concept for culture under flow conditions

The EBERS TEB 1000 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 TEB1000 bioreactor has been designed following a novel philosophy in the TE bioreactors field: it has been developed has 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 concentration and culture media flow conditions, in which a culture package 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 package

  The wide variety of these packages 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 package, 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.