GeSiM bioinstruments at SLAS2023, San Diego (USA), 25th Feb to 1st March: SLAS2023 International Conference and Exhibition is around the corner. It will attract scientists from all over the world, comprising a large commercial exhibition and a scientific conference. SLAS2023 will be focused on laboratory automation and more. It is an occasion to meet GeSiM, [...]
MEW of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Scaffolds with Programmed Mechanical Response: MEW - Melt Electro Writing - means the deposition of thin fibres by electrostatic forces, following exactly pre-programmed patterns. With GeSiM BioScaffold printers, the MEW printhead deposits Gcode based geometries in the same way a pneumatic extruder does. Customers of the Spanish National Council of [...]
Liquid Handling & Bioprinting at MEDICA 2022: MEDICA will open its doors again from November 14th to 17th. For the first time since 2019, GeSiM will also present new products (GeSiM: Hall 1, E24). Micro Pipetting: Real-time spot detection is now available for our proven workhorse Nano-Plotter for all applications related to diagnostics and microarrays. [...]
Real-Time Monitoring of individual Spots on the Nano-Plotter: Piezoelectric drop-on-demand GeSiM pipets deposit hundreds of identical spots onto arbitrary targets with a single aspiration. However, physical limits apply to the range of liquids, and the reliability of the process deteriorates when approaching these limits. Each Nano-Plotter comes with a stroboscopic test of function of each [...]
Nano-Plotter - Special Applications: The pipetting instrument Nano-Plotter with its unique piezoelectric GeSiM pipets is primarily used for functionalization of biochips, printing of microarrays and Nanolitre pipetting for multiple parameter assays. Beside of the “core applications”, the flexibility of soft- and hardware makes the Nano-Plotter a versatile companion in fields like drug discovery, fine chemicals, [...]
Printed Electronics with GeSiM Bioprinters: GeSiM bioprinters offer qualitative advantages over the competition. Two important points: The variety of different extrusion tools allows to print a huge range of polymers, more than just biocompatible materials. The high XYZ accuracy – particularly with BS5.x instruments – allows to print at higher resolution then many other bioprinters [...]
Drug Release of Antibiotics through 2-phase 3D-printed Hydrogel Structures: Anti-inflammatory antibiotics are crucial for the treatment of open fractures and large, open wounds. Several ways to administer such medication are known, but the controlled local application at the wound area is often difficult. A team from University Hospital Dresden now published a new approach, using [...]
Bioengineering, Ordering Up Organs: Radio New Zealand (RNZ, “Our Changing World”) interviews the users of a GeSiM BioScaffold printer BS3.1 at University of Otago. It belongs to the core instruments for Dr. Jaydee Cabral, a research fellow at the Chemical Department. She uses the unit successfully since 2017, working on different projects. Beside of biomaterials [...]
3D Printing of Multi-layer Scaffolds to mimic Patient Specific Implants: Customers at University Hospital of TU Dresden conducted a research study for the future therapy of osteochondral defects. They developed a workflow, based on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset derived from a real clinical case. MRI provides more information on cartilage tissue and muscles, [...]
Array-based Chemical Synthesis: DNA- and protein microarrays are available for many years, nowadays widely used for modern in-vitro diagnostics. They are based on prefabricated biomolecules, tethered on solid surfaces by special surface chemistry (E.g. Amino-silane slides). When the spotted arrays are exposed to the analyte, just one specific reaction can happen on each spot with [...]