Mechanical Testing Systems for
Breakthrough Biomaterials
Research
CellScale develops precision mechanical testing systems and bioreactors to characterize the mechanics of biomaterials, soft materials, engineered tissues, and more.
Helping Laboratories, Universities, and Research Centers Worldwide
For more than twenty years, researchers have relied on CellScale laboratory equipment, using our mechanical testing systems that are built specifically for biomaterials and soft matter, with lifetime technical support.
What Our Systems Do
Our testing systems deliver precise displacement measurement and repeatable mechanical properties and mechanobiology analysis. Teams working with hydrogels, natural and engineered tissues, cellular constructs, scaffolds, biomedical devices, and more, use our technology to uncover structure-function relationships, validate material properties and performance in a controlled setting, and analyze the effects of mechanical stimulation on cells and tissues.
CellScale Instruments
Benchtop mechanical testers and bioreactors for your biomaterials, material mechanics, and mechanobiology research, designed for accuracy, versatility, and ease of integration.
BioTester
MicroTester
UniVert
MechanoCulture TX
A programmable bioreactor that provides controlled mechanical compression for scaffolds, tissues, and other cell culture materials across six independent wells. It enables studies in mechanobiology, tissue formation, and cellular response to mechanical cues.
Mechanical Testing Applications by Research Area
Our materials testing systems and bioreactors are used in a wide range of research applications across biomaterials testing and soft materials research. Researchers use our systems to investigate fundamental mechanics, validate engineered constructs, and determine mechanical properties of biological and synthetic material performance, as well as investigate mechanobiology effects.
- Tissue Engineering & Soft Tissue Biomechanics
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Mechanobiology &
Bioelectronics
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Biomaterials & Advanced
Materials
Mechanical Testing Methods
CellScale benchtop mechanical testers and bioreactors are capable of many standardized and custom mechanical testing methods. These methods help researchers quantify stiffness, strength, durability, and time-dependent mechanical behaviour across both biological and synthetic materials.
Measures stiffness, strength, and extensibility of soft materials and tissues.
Characterizes bulk mechanical behaviour of materials, such as hydrogels, tissues, and scaffolds, and polymers.
Evaluates anisotropic and multi-directional mechanics in soft tissues, membranes, and planar materials.
Enables image-based strain measurement and strain mapping.
Viscoelastic & Time-Dependent Testing
Quantifies creep, stress relaxation, and time-dependent mechanical response.
Enables force and displacement-controlled testing of micro-scale samples, fibers, and microtissues.
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Used in Over 1,300 Research Publications
CellScale technology appears in peer-reviewed publications across the biomedical, tissue engineering, soft materials, and mechanobiology research communities. These studies use our mechanical testing systems to quantify material stiffness, analyze deformation, evaluate engineered tissues, and explore cellular responses to mechanical load.
Journal logos shown represent publications in which CellScale instruments were used. Logos are the property of their respective publishers.
Latest Updates
Our team publishes research highlights, applications, case studies, and educational resources covering journal articles, testing methods, and best practices for mechanical testing equipment.
Comments From the Field
“I purchased the CellScale [BioTester] in my first year as an Assistant Professor. It allowed my first graduate student to start collecting data from day one rather than spend the time to design, build, and validate a custom device first.”
Dr. Manuel Rausch
Assistant Professor in The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics and Department of Biomedical Engineering.
“I’m very happy to see a machine like this come along that really took the mechanical testing apparatus from every lab having their own home-built system to something that can really take a lot of the nuts and bolts assembly and machining and software and controller out of it and make that all a turnkey type capability.”
Dr. Peter Hammer
Scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital Congenital Heart Valve Program and Instructor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
“It’s a great system that offers all the capabilities and specs I needed for performing [cardiovascular] research in my lab.”
“This is the system with the best value on the market.”
Dr. Chung-Hao Lee
Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside Bioengineering Department and elected fellow of the American Heart Association.
Logos shown above represent institutions which have published peer-reviewed studies in which CellScale instruments were used. Logos are the property of their respective institutions.
Advance Your Biomaterials and Mechanical Testing Research
Our team will help you identify the right benchtop mechanical tester for your setup, be it a biaxial tester, micro-scale tester, bioreactor, or education focused system. Connect with us to discuss your project and explore which mechanical testing system best supports your work.
