CellScale Tutorials and Demonstrations

CellScale tutorials and demonstrations provide practical, experiment-focused videos showing how CellScale systems are configured and used in real biomaterials and mechanobiology workflows. This library includes mechanical testing tutorials that walk through setup and execution steps, short technique demonstrations (for example, strain preparation for imaging), and mechanobiology stimulation bioreactor demonstrations for long-term conditioning studies.

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Mechanical Testing Tutorials

These mechanical testing tutorials show the hands-on parts of a run: how the sample is mounted, how alignment is checked, and how a protocol is started and repeated. Some videos cover a full setup from start to finish, while others focus on one step that tends to affect data quality.

Featured Mechanical Testing Tutorials

UniVert Mechanical Testing System Introduction and Demonstration

Introduction and demonstration of the UniVert mechanical testing system, highlighting versatile test modes, configurations, and software control.

BioTester Biaxial Mechanical Testing System Demonstration

End-to-end demonstration of the BioTester biaxial mechanical testing system, including specimen preparation, mounting, test execution, and image-based strain analysis.

Mechanical Testing of Soft Gels Using the MicroTester

Demonstration of compression and indentation testing methods for soft gels using the MicroTester, showing consistent modulus measurements across geometries.

Hydrogel Microsphere Parallel-Plate Compression Test Demonstration

Step-by-step demonstration of parallel-plate compression testing on hydrogel microspheres using the MicroTester.

Biaxial Testing Demonstrations

Biaxial testing demonstration videos in this category focus on planar specimen loading, stable attachment methods, and minimizing edge effects that can dominate results for thin, compliant, or anisotropic biomaterials.

Biaxial Testing Demonstration Videos

Biaxial Tensile Testing of an Electrospun Polymer Using BioRakes

Biaxial tensile testing of an electrospun polymer using BioRakes for multi-point specimen attachment.

BioTester Demonstration: Suture and Pulley Mounting for Biaxial Testing

Demonstration of suture and pulley-based specimen mounting for force-balanced, zero-shear biaxial testing using the BioTester.

Micro-Scale Mechanical Testing

Micro-scale mechanical testing videos cover millimeter and sub-millimeter samples where small handling details make a big difference. You’ll see how specimens are positioned under the microscope, how contact is set, and how low forces are measured during compression or tension. This section includes quick demos and longer walk-throughs.

Micro-Scale Mechanical Testing Videos

Engineered Fiber Micro-Mechanical Testing

Micro-scale tensile testing in a 96 well plate using a custom horizontal MicroTester configuration, with compliant hooks and optical access for deformation tracking and strain quantification.

Parallel Plate Compression Testing of a Hydrogel Sphere

Parallel plate compression testing of a hydrogel sphere for soft material mechanical characterization.

Micro-Scale Mechanical Testing Demonstration Using the MicroTester

Demonstration of micro-scale mechanical testing, highlighting compression, tension, and bending tests on ultra-small biomaterial specimens.

Micro-Scale Tensile Testing of a Soft Hydrogel

Short clip of micro tensile testing on a very soft hydrogel specimen, emphasizing stable attachment and low-force measurement.

Micro-Scale Compression Testing of a Hydrogel Sphere

Short clip showing micro-scale compression of a hydrogel sphere with force-displacement recording for modulus estimation.

Mechanobiology Stimulation Bioreactors

Mechanobiology stimulation bioreactor videos show MechanoCulture systems running cyclic loading on living constructs or cultures. The clips focus on loading multiple samples, keeping them in a controlled environment, and following the force response during a conditioning run.

Mechanobiology Stimulation Bioreactor Videos

MechanoCulture T6 Uniaxial Mechanical Stimulation Demonstration

Demonstration of the MechanoCulture T6 system for uniaxial mechanical stimulation of engineered tissues.

MechanoCulture J1 Mechanical Stimulation System Introduction

Introduction and demonstration of the MechanoCulture J1 system for parallel mechanical stimulation of living tissue constructs.

MechanoCulture J1 Mechanical Stimulation in Operation

Short clip showing six independently controlled constructs cycling in parallel with per-sample force measurement.

MechanoCulture TX (MCTX) Uniaxial Compression Stimulation Demonstration

Demonstration of the MechanoCulture TX system for parallel uniaxial compression stimulation of tissue samples.

MechanoCulture TR Hydrostatic Pressure Stimulation Demonstration

Hydrostatic pressure stimulation of cell cultures using the MechanoCulture TR system.

MechanoCulture TR (MCTR) Compression Bioreactor Demonstration

Demonstration of the MechanoCulture TR compression bioreactor for parallel mechanical stimulation of tissue cultures.

Short Technique Demonstrations and Clips

This section of the CellScale tutorials and demonstrations library is a set of short clips focused on one technique at a time. Use them as quick references for things like speckle patterning, gripping choices, or what a common test setup looks like before you run it in the lab.

Technique and Clip Library

Digital Image Correlation Speckle Patterning Using a Hand-Held Printer

Mechanical Testing of Intra-Ocular Lens (IOL) Haptics

Short clip showing controlled deflection with synchronized force measurement for device characterization.

UniVert Mechanical Testing System Visual Overview

Visual overview of the UniVert mechanical testing system and its configurable testing capabilities.

Uniaxial Tensile Testing of Porcine Annulus Fibrosus

Short clip showing BioRake gripping for stable tensile loading of compliant, anisotropic tissue.

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