Nicole Kleger and Simona Fehlmann - sallea

Add the third dimension to cells.

Enlarged view: Pioneer Fellowship - sallea - Nicole Kleger and Simona Fehlmann
An example of a salt structure (left) before its infiltration with PDMS (center). Once the PDMS is cured, the salt can simply be washed away in water to release the final object (PDMS lattice; right).

Meat, drugs, or implants - our society is strongly dependent on conventional livestock breeding to grow animal-based protein, to test new drugs or to use animal components to repair parts of the human body. This has both ecological and ethical consequences. sallea's novel, highly porous, three-dimensional structures, so-called scaffolds, made from biomaterials allow the cultivation of (muscle) tissue such as meat in the laboratory. sallea is a start-up from ETH Zurich where the novel process to produce scaffolds from a variety of material with open, controlled porosity was developed. If you are interested in trying our scaffolds, do not hesitate to reach out to us.

 

Nicole Kleger and Simona Fehlmann
(left to right)

sallea prototype

sallea? prototype

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