A development team at the nanomedical centre of the private non-profit company CSEM in Landquart, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Landquart company Fuchs Engineering GmbH, has developed a high-tech apparatus called “TestChest”. The apparatus allows simulations of unprecedented consistency and diversity for use in the field of cardiac and pulmonary medical training, and provides a replacement method for animal tests.

New and very promising scientific findings concerning toxicity tests on cells have been made by means of electrochemical measurements using electrochemical sensors with the help of IMOLA-IVD measurement systems and three-dimensional micro-tissue.

A Swedish surgery team has successfully implanted a trachea implant colonised with stem cells. The scientists did not require a donor organ, as they had also created an artificial scaffold, which was not the case in previous transplantations.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Laser Technology (ILT) in Aachen, Germany, and other Fraunhofer institutes have used a special laser technique to create hybrid biomimetic matrices which can serve as basis for scaffold and implant structures on which cells can grow.