Ibidi has announced the extension of its partnership to exclusively distribute the products of Applied Biophysics in Germany, strengthening its position as a service provider for system biology
Applied BioPhysics, which already distributes Ibidi's u-Slides in the USA, is focused on the ECIS technology.
ECIS allows measurement of the capacity and/or the impedance of a cell layer.
"The product lines of Ibidi and Applied BioPhysics complement each another excellently", commented Ulf Radler, director of the sales division at Ibidi.
"Together with Ibidi's u-Slides, the user now can visualise a certain process using optical methods and also can follow the same process in an impedance measurement".
And Radler adds: "The new and outstanding product line of Applied Biophysics allows us to support our customers even better".
ECIS (electric cell-substrate impedance sensing) is an electrical method to study, in real time, many of the activities of animal cells when grown in tissue culture.
These include morphological changes, cell locomotion, and other behaviors directed by the cell's cytoskeleton.
ECIS can be used in cell-based assays, such as toxicological screenings or pharmacokinetics, and permits many possible applications in the pharmaceutical industry.
Ibidi develops, produces and distributes micro-slides (u- Slides), a 'lab-on-a-slide' technology for the analysis of cells and biomolecules.
The u-Slides represent a new family of flow through devices for the functional analysis of living cells.
Currently, the u-Slide product family comprises eight different slide types for cell-culture and optical microscopy (high resolution, fluorescence, DIC) and protein-binding.
