Ready To Design Hydrogel Kits

Ready-To-Design Hydrogel Kits contain a thiol-reactive polymer, a crosslinker and a 10x concentrated salt and buffer solution. Cell adhesion peptides, Dextranase for gel dissolution and other gel modifying reagents are available as separate products (see products Adhesion Peptides and Accessories).

Hydrogel composition and properties are indicated in their names for easy hydrogel selection:

PVA or Dextran: PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) is a biochemically stable polymer providing long lasting hydrogel stability for long-term cell cultures. Hydrogels based on Dextran can be dissolved by 3-D Life Dextranase (see Accessories) for a protease-free cell recovery when crosslinked with PEG-Link or CD-Link. Dextran hydrogels crosslinked with HyLink (HA Kits) cannot be dissolved by 3-D Life Dextranase.

FG or SG: Choose between fast gelling (FG) and slow gelling (SG) hydrogels according to your experimental requirements.

CD or PEG: Choose between a cell-degradable (CD) crosslinker and a non-degradable (PEG) crosslinker.

HA or CD-HA: Choose a hyaluronic acid-based crosslinker, either hyaluronic acid only (HA) or one with a matrix metalloproteinase-cleavable motif (CD-HA). 

ToLuminate: Photo-crosslinkable hydrogels. 

All Ready-To-Design Hydrogels: