Cellendes

Cellendes is an innovative life science company offering a comprehensive portfolio of biomimetic hydrogels for 3D cell culture. The wide choice of ready-to-use and ready-to-design hydrogels developed by Cellendes offers unrivaled flexibility, versatility and convenience.

The company’s unique hydrogel technology for controlled cell environment design in 3D cell culture offers numerous advantages in complex cell-based assays and tissue models for basic and preclinical research, drug discovery, drug repurposing and biomedical engineering applications.

Preconfigured and Ready-to-design Biomimetic Hydrogel Kits

Cellendes offers ready-to-use hydrogel kits, containing a preformulated thiol-reactive polymer and a crosslinker. Designed for ease of use, the 3-D Life ToGro Hydrogel Kits offer fast and easy 3D cultivation of various cell types, spheroids and tissue samples.

The ready-to-design Hydrogel Kits by Cellendes empower researchers to conveniently design biomimetic hydrogels for specific applications. The composition and properties of the hydrogels can be chosen independently from one another, offering the highest flexibility in designing biomimetic hydrogels for each specific cell culture.

3D Cell Culture Advantages for Drug Discovery

Due to their close resemblance to in vivo cell environments, 3D cell cultures have seen increased use in drug discovery applications. A higher level of precision in the identification of promising lead compounds from high-throughput screens significantly increases the chances of success of investigational drugs through the preclinical validation and clinical trials stages.

The novel 3-D Life hydrogel technology developed by Cellendes is designed to answer the needs of researchers for cell-based assays which can closely mimic the complex microenvironment cells encounter in a tissue.

The chemically defined nature of 3-D Life Hydrogels excludes animal-derived components making cultures highly reproducible. By contrast to animal-derived hydrogels, 3-D Life Hydrogels ensure that there are no batch-to-batch variations, achieving significantly more reliable results in drug screening.

Offering superior precision, reproducibility and convenience of use, 3-D Life Hydrogels enable researchers to increase the accuracy of drug effects prediction and thereby accelerate the successful identification of lead compounds with a higher chance of achieving primary endpoints in later studies and clinical trials.

3-D Life Technology for Biomimetic Hydrogels used in 3D Cell Culture

The 3-D Life technology for generation of biomimetic hydrogels used in 3-D cell culture consists of two polymers forming a hydrogel by covalent crosslinking at ambient temperatures. The non-toxic chemical reaction guarantees the optimal survival of cells. The choice of very quick or slow gelling gels allows researchers to adapt the gel set-up to many different procedures ranging from single gel to multiwell plate cultures, injections and automated culture set-ups.

Adapting extracellular environments to specific cell culture requirements is also made possible with the 3-D Life technology which allows fast and convenient customisation of the ready-to-design hydrogels by independently adding the needed biofactors, such as signals for cell adhesion and matrix metalloprotease-triggered matrix remodeling. Furthermore, synthetic and well-defined constituents ensure highly reproducible gel properties. Cells can be embedded inside the gel matrix or cultivated on top of the gel.

Due to the perfect transparency of the hydrogels, 3D cultured cells can easily be analysed by microscopy, including the use of imunostaining techniques. Cells can also be recovered from the hydrogel for post culture analyses, such as RT-PCR or biochemical assays, by a cell-friendly enzymatically induced degradation of the hydrogels.

Custom Hydrogels for Cell-based Assay Development

The comprehensive range of 3-D Life biocompatible hydrogel reagents for 3D cell culture provides groundbreaking flexibility for cell-based assay development and screening. Offering complete control over composition, exceptional versatility in biomolecular modification, and ease of use, the hydrogel materials are extremely advantageous for numerous applications in the drug discovery process.

With the 3-D Life toolbox of reagents, researchers gain the flexibility to easily customise hydrogels with the desired biomimetic modifications, such as peptides and proteins, for each specific cell culture. The setup of the hydrogel is simple and convenient. All steps, including gel set up, cell cultivation and gel dissolution for post culture analyses are compatible with automation to offer improved workflows in labs.

Cellendes also offers bulk production of hydrogel reagents on demand. Once customers identify the best composition for their cultures, Cellendes can produce larger amounts of custom hydrogels for their screens on request.

Headquarters

Cellendes GmbH
Gerhard-Kindler-Str. 8
72770 Reutlingen

Germany

Phone: +49 7121 15940 0
Fax:      +49 7121 15940 99

info@cellendes.com

www.cellendes.com