Note: Please contact 3dbioelectronics@msm.cam.ac.uk with technical queries or royce@maxwell.cam.ac.uk for booking and Royce funding.
About us
The Royce 3D Bioelectronics Facility at the University of Cambridge is designed for physical scientists and engineers to test the interaction of 3D materials and bioelectronic devices with cells. Our focus is on facilitating researchers with limited access to cell biology equipment in the fabrication and subsequent analysis of 3D cell interfacing constructs. The facility has 6 main items of equipment.
Our capabilities
- VirTis AdVantage Pro freeze dryer to lyophilise solutions and suspensions and to produce 3D scaffold materials.
- Bruker Ultima 2Pplus 2-photon microscope with integrated patch clamp system to take simultaneous optical and electrophysiological measurements of cells.
- Suite of cell culture equipment for growth and maintenance of cells in 3D culture, to perform colorimetric assays, or prepare samples for immunofluorescence microscopy.
- Metrohm PGSTAT302N potentiostat and Intan RHD USB board to analyse cell behaviour on novel materials and bioelectronic devices.
- Leica VT1000S to cut large, soft samples into thin sections
- Cell Box Ground 2.0 to transport live cell-containing devices overland, between research sites, for up to two days.
