Modern laboratory of cell cultures and bioengineering opened in Ukraine

The laboratory is open on the basis of Zaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University. Pathological processes can be studied there at the molecular cellular level without laboratory animals, that is, according to the norms of bioethics, as is practiced all over the world.

The laboratory is equipped to the highest standards. Two unique Carl Zeiss microscopes are installed here. There are state-of-the-art incubators for growing cell cultures, a low-temperature freezer where cell cultures will be stored at minus 80 °C, and the latest generation of laminar flow boxes for the personal protection of employees who work there. 

Of course, working in such laboratories requires a lot of money – from high technologies to consumables, nutrient mixtures, dishes with special properties, and so on. But this is a significant advance in science, and now no medical, biological, or pharmacological studies in the world take place without conducting the cell culture stage. 

Recently, the first scientific project was launched in the laboratory – traumatologists of the university began the research work of the department “Research of the regenerative potential of cell therapy in orthopedics and traumatology”. 

Scientists will evaluate how various regulatory factors will affect cells and determine how capable they are of proliferation, that is, to the growth of tissue through reproduction. 

This is important data and knowledge that will help our doctors save patients, and speed up the processes of treatment, wound healing, survival, and therefore recovery in general. For example, when replacing a knee joint, the factor of its adaptation and effective healing is very important, so cellular research should give specialists a valuable clue as to which drugs will speed up this process.

The laboratory will work with both experimental (from animals) and clinical (from patients) material, as well as commercial cells. Given modern methods of bioethics, animal studies are a thing of the past, and they are generally prohibited from being conducted at the stages of preclinical screening. Living cells are grown in the laboratory, and they can be used to simulate various pathological conditions that people have in order to track how they change under the influence of various kinds of treatment.

Scientists of the university of various specializations will be able to work on the basis of the cell culture laboratory: dentists, pharmacists, histologists, anatomists, biologists, and dermatologists.