Natural and synthetic biomaterials offer significant opportunities
Biomaterials are substances created to interact with living systems. These versatile materials are either natural or synthetic in origin and play crucial roles in basic research, agriculture and medicine. Innovation in biomaterials is driving the development of an unprecedented array of new materials and products that promise to deliver significant benefits to society.
While the use of biomaterials goes back thousands of years, the science of biomaterials is a more recent phenomenon reflecting the newfound capabilities of biotechnology, molecular biology, genomics & genetics, synthetic biology and other rapidly emerging disciplines that have flourished in the 20th century.
BMG LABTECH microplate readers are indispensable tools for biomaterials research that deliver speed, precision, flexibility and scale. They can be used for example to screen how cells respond to new biomaterials such as medical implants (e.g. cell viability and cell-based assays), monitor the controlled release of new drugs from hydrogels, evaluate nanoparticles (e.g. for gene delivery applications) or biological coatings, test for antimicrobial activities, or generate diverse labelling methods for molecules, cells or tissues.
