Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself.

Cultex Laboratories GmbH, located in the Medical Park Hannover, has developed the CULTEX® RFS module, a precision instrument for direct exposure of cells from the respiratory tract. Mimicking the in vivo situation, bronchial epithelial cells for example can be treated with a wide range of test substances (individual gases, gas mixtures, particulate aerosols etc.).

Starting with this article, InvitroJobs will present scientists and their innovative research in a regular feature called “Working Group – a Portrait”.
We will focus on newly developed methods, their evaluation and their potential for reducing and where possible replacing animal experimentation according to the 3R principle of Russel & Burch (reduce, refine, replace). We start with two research groups from the Clinical Research Laboratory of the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Department of Tübingen University Hospital, “Haemocompatibility” and “Pyrogen assay”. The introduction is followed by an interview with Dr. med. Stefan Fennrich.

The Bavarian Research Foundation is supporting a research project under the name of COSIR (Combination of Chemical-Optical Sensors with Image Recognition) with the goal of developing a system for continuous imaging of cell cultures with simultaneous oxygen and pH value measurements of the sample without any human intervention.