Mechanical Testing Systems for Breakthrough Biomaterials Research

CellScale develops precision mechanical testing systems and bioreactors to characterize the mechanics of biomaterials, soft materials, engineered tissues, and more.

Helping Laboratories, Universities, and Research Centers Worldwide

Free lifetime technical support with our instruments. For more than twenty years, researchers have relied on CellScale laboratory equipment, using our mechanical testing systems that are built specifically for biomaterials and soft matter.

What Our Systems Do

Our platforms deliver stable load control, precise displacement measurement, and repeatable mechanical properties analysis. Teams working with hydrogels, engineered tissues, cellular constructs, scaffolds, biomedical devices, and more, use our technology to uncover structure-function relationships and validate material performance in a controlled setting.

CellScale Instruments

Benchtop mechanical testers and bioreactors for your biomaterials testing research, designed for accuracy, versatility, and ease of integration.

UniVert

A versatile mechanical testing system for tension, compression, cyclic loading, and much more. UniVert supports a wide range of soft materials testing studies, from fundamental mechanical behaviour to applied biomaterials research.

MechanoCulture TX

A programmable bioreactor that provides controlled mechanical compression for cells and tissues across six independent wells. It enables studies in mechanobiology, tissue formation, and cellular response to mechanical cues

BioTester

A biaxial mechanical testing system for controlled planar loading of tissues, membranes, and engineered constructs. BioTester is well suited to anisotropic materials and studies that require multi-directional testing and optical tracking.

MicroTester

A micro-scale mechanical testing system for tissues, fibers, thin films, micro constructs, and other smaller specimens. MicroTester offers precise force and displacement control for the smallest samples.

Mechanical Testing Applications by Research Field

Our materials testing systems and bioreactors are used in a wide range of research applications across biomaterials testing and soft materials research. Researchers use our systems to investigate fundamental mechanics, validate engineered constructs, and determine mechanical properties analysis of biological and synthetic material performance.

Bone Tissue Engineering, Cardiac Tissue Engineering, Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering, Skin & Wound Healing, Vascular Tissue Engineering

Cancer Mechanobiology, Drug Screen & Drug Delivery Mechanics, Neural Tissue & CNS Mechanics, Organ-On-A-Chip Systems, Wearable Bioelectronics

Adhesives & Sealants, 3D Bioprinting & Bioink, Hydrogel Mechanical Testing, Membranes & Thin Films, Polymers & Elastomers

Mechanical Testing Methods

CellScale benchtop mechanical testers and bioreactors are capable of many standardized and custom mechanical testing methods. These methods help researchers quantify stiffness, strength, durability, and time-dependent mechanical behaviour across both biological and synthetic materials.

Tensile Testing

Measures stiffness, strength, and extensibility of soft materials and tissues.

Compression Testing

Characterizes bulk mechanical behaviour of hydrogels, tissues, and scaffolds.

Biaxial Testing

Evaluates anisotropic and multi-directional mechanics in soft tissues and membranes.

Fatigue Testing

Assesses durability and long-term performance under repeated or cyclic loading.

Viscoelastic & Time-Dependent Testing

Quantifies creep, stress relaxation, and time-dependent mechanical response.

Micro-Mechanical Testing

Enables force-controlled testing of micro-scale samples, fibers, and microtissues.

Used in Over 1,300 Research Publications

CellScale technology appears in peer-reviewed publications across the biomedical, tissue engineering, soft materials, and mechanobiology research communities. These studies use our mechanical testing systems to quantify material stiffness, analyze deformation, evaluate engineered tissues, and explore cellular responses to mechanical load.

Journal logos shown represent publications in which CellScale instruments were used. Logos are the property of their respective publishers.

Latest News

Our team publishes research highlights, applications, case studies, and educational resources covering journal articles, testing methods, and best practices for mechanical testing equipment.

Article 1

February 11, 2026 No Comments

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut id diam egestas, malesuada purus eu,

Comments From the Field

“I purchased the CellScale [BioTester] in my first year as an Assistant Professor. It allowed my first graduate student to start collecting data from day one rather than spend the time to design, build, and validate a custom device first.”

Dr. Manuel Rausch

Assistant Professor in The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics and Department of Biomedical Engineering.

“I’m very happy to see a machine like this come along that really took the mechanical testing apparatus from every lab having their own home-built system to something that can really take a lot of the nuts and bolts assembly and machining and software and controller out of it and make that all a turnkey type capability.”

Dr. Peter Hammer

Scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital Congenital Heart Valve Program and Instructor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

“It’s a great system that offers all the capabilities and specs I needed for performing the type of research in my lab.” “This is the system with the best value on the market.”

Dr. Chung-Hao Lee

Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside Bioengineering Department and elected fellow of the American Heart Association.

Advance Your Biomaterials and Mechanical Testing Research

Our team will help you identify the right benchtop mechanical tester for your setup, be it a biaxial tester, micro-scale tester, bioreactor, or education focused system. Connect with us to discuss your project and explore which mechanical testing system best supports your work.