TERMIS

Baxter BioSurgery supplies a number of novel biomaterials to improve surgical procedures in hard and soft tissue repair and positively impact clinical and patient outcomes. Baxter BioSurgery is also active in the field of regenerative medicine. Amongst others, the BioSurgery product line, focussed on regenerative medicine includes:Tisseel/Tissucol (a physiological fibrin matrix designed to enhance wound healing and tissue repair), TricOs (a moldable bone substitute consisting of biphasic TCP/HA particles and fibrin) as well as TissuDura (a collagen based material to create a living dura).

L'Oréal Research has long been researching cell biology and tissue engineering to further its understanding of skin and hair. Advanced Research designs reconstructed human skins for its research into skin biology which have numerous applications. Developing skin models for toxicity tests enabling the reduction or even elimination of animal testing, Establishing, validating and standardising new alternative tests to evaluate the safety and tolerance of raw materials, Developing an understanding of the skin without the use of invasive clinical trials Evaluating the safety and effectiveness of new raw materials.

In 2006, the acquisition of SkinEthic, the leading tissue engineering company, demonstrated the group's determination to enlarge the product range by reconstructing other types of tissue for which products are made, such as corneal, oral, oesophageal, nasal and pulmonary epithelia. SkinEthic already markets the reconstructed epidermis model Episkin which has been validated as an alternative method. Validation process is also under way for the cornea. www.rd.loreal.com www.skinethic.com www.invitroskin.com.

BD Biosciences is a segment of BD and is built on the BD 100+-year foundation of quality, reliability, and commitment to customers and business partners around the world. As one of the world's largest businesses serving the life sciences, BD Biosciences provides a comprehensive portfolio of reagents, systems, and technical expertise, offering solutions to life scientists and accelerating the pace of biomedical discovery and diagnosis, and facilitating pharmaceutical production.

BD Biosciences provides integrated, high-value products and services for a variety of applications in the life sciences, including genomics, proteomics, drug discovery and development, leukemia, lymphoma, HIV/AIDS, immune function, and stem cell research. With leading expertise in fluid handling, cell and tissue culture, and cell screening, BD Biosciences - Discovery Labware provides products and services with applications for drug discovery, ADME/Tox, high throughput screening, angiogenesis, and tumor invasion. Major product brands include BD Falcon^TM, BD BioCoat^TM, BD Matrigel^TM, and BD Gentest^TM.

www.bose-electroforce.com
Bose Corporation manufactures ElectroForce® test instruments using proprietary linear motor technology. These instruments are designed for characterizing soft tissues, bone, orthopaedic and cardiovascular medical devices, biomaterials, stents, and a variety of viscoelastic engineered materials. The new BioDynamic^TM test instruments perform characterization of biomaterials and tissue in a biological environment.

www.cellon.lu
The Rotary Cell Culture System is the only device that efficiently creates an environment that enables extremely fragile cell cultures and co-cultures of human and animal cell to grow into complex, sophisticated 3-D models in vitro. The cultures mimic the structure and function of their parental tissue. More information on www.cellon.lu

Dunn Labortechnik is a privately owned German company in its 25th year.and as European Distributor of Flexcell International, is exhibiting Flexcell's equipment as this year's TERMIS in London.

Flexcell specializes for more than 20 years in designing and manufacturing products to service the Cytomechanics marketplace.

On show will be tension, compression and fluid shear systems for cell culturing. These systems stress cells in culture simulating the in vivo environment. The equipment has broad applications in the biomedical research field since strain, compression, or fluid flow have been found to induce biochemical changes in cells derived from a variety of tissues including cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle, lung, vascular endothelium, skin, tendon, ligament, cartilage and bone.

www.scaffdex.com
Scaffdex is developing and selling different kinds of bioabsorbable scaffolds and assisting devices for biomaterial and tissue engineering research. Scaffdex is located in Tampere, Finland and co-operates closely with Tampere University of Technology and Tampere University.