Sourcing intermediary · Research use only
Send one specification for a living component. Receive comparable quotes.
Wetware World sources cells, tissue constructs, culture devices and characterisation work from laboratories that build them. You write the specification once. We circulate it, normalise what comes back, and return comparable quotes.
Every listing names the laboratory that makes it.
Ordering
Five steps. Each produces a written output.
| # | Step | What you receive |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | You send a specification | A written request held under a reference number. |
| 02 | We say whether it exists | A feasibility statement and the proposed route. |
| 03 | We circulate it, anonymised unless you say otherwise | A named list of laboratories approached, and who declined. |
| 04 | We normalise what comes back | A comparison table plus every original quote, unedited. |
| 05 | You order | Purchase order placed, quality documents and cold chain arranged. |
Specification inputs
A quote requires all four. Incomplete requests return a question.
| # | Input | What it states |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Component | What the living part is: cell type, tissue construct, culture device, or a service performed on your material. |
| 02 | Geometry and format | Dimensions, vessel, well count, anchoring, and how it must arrive, live in medium, cryopreserved, or fixed. |
| 03 | Functional acceptance | The measurement that decides whether a batch is acceptable. Twitch force in µN, spontaneous firing rate, TEER, viability post-thaw. |
| 04 | Quality evidence | Which certificates travel with the shipment: mycoplasma, STR identity, sterility, endotoxin, karyotype, functional trace. |
Catalogue
Each item is quoted against named laboratories.
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Cells and cell lines →
iPSC lines, neural progenitors, cortical neurons, myoblasts, cardiomyocytes, astrocytes, primary human cells.
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Tissue constructs →
Reconstructed epithelium, spheroids and organoids, engineered contractile muscle, neuromuscular junction models.
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Culture devices →
Casting plates, microfluidic and PDMS devices, multi-electrode arrays, stimulation hardware, custom microfabrication.
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Laboratory services →
Expansion, differentiation, banking and cryopreservation, contract culture, assay development.
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Characterisation and QC →
Mycoplasma, STR identity, sterility, viability, histology, imaging, electrophysiology and force phenotyping.
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Cold chain →
Validated cryogenic and 4 °C shipping, dry shippers, temperature logging, customs documentation.
Provenance labels
Each label states where the material comes from.
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| In stock | Held by a supplier as a catalogue item and shippable against a standing lead time. |
| Partner manufactured | Produced by a named partner laboratory to their published specification. We arrange supply and quality documentation. |
| Custom RFQ | No catalogue equivalent exists. We circulate your specification to capable laboratories and return comparable quotes. |
| Made by Wetware World | Produced in-house to our own specification. |
Pricing and sourcing research
Published prices, comparisons and definitions. Every figure carries its source and the date recorded.
| Page | Type | Sources | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| The operating envelope: what a living actuator needs to keep working Living actuators run at 37 °C in buffered media inside a sterile incubator, and published untethered lifetimes are measured in days. The environmental constraints, the one documented ambient exception, and what that means for device design. | Guide | 12 | 2026-09-01 |
| Cardiac or skeletal muscle: choosing an actuator substrate Cardiac muscle contracts by itself and never stops. Skeletal muscle does nothing until you tell it to, then does exactly that. Published forces, control models, lifetimes and commercial supply for both, with a citation on every claim. | Comparison | 16 | 2026-09-01 |
| Biological computing hardware: what you can actually buy, rent or collaborate on The commercial and academic landscape for neurons-as-compute: Cortical Labs CL1 and Cortical Cloud, FinalSpark Neuroplatform, and the general-purpose HD-MEA route. Substrate, electrode counts, access model and published prices, with sources and dates. | Guide | 10 | 2026-09-01 |
| Biohybrid actuator bill of materials: every line item, priced where a price exists A complete parts list for one engineered muscle actuator, from cells to force readout, with a published price where one exists and an explicit "quote only" where it does not. Verified prices: eNUVIO $440, ATCC $577, myriamed EUR 1,400. | Guide | 13 | 2026-09-01 |
| Cell culture for a robotics lab: what you actually have to build What an engineering group must acquire, learn and staff before it can make a living actuator, and the one verified price that finally makes the make-versus-buy comparison answerable: myriamed lists a finished skeletal muscle tissue at EUR 1,400. | Guide | 10 | 2026-09-01 |
| Biohybrid robotics: sourcing living actuators A landscape map of biohybrid actuator work, which groups build what, from which cell source, with what published force, and the honest supply-side answer: finished contractile tissue is purchasable from one supplier at EUR 1,400, but nobody sells it against a force specification, so every project is still an integration job. | Guide | 14 | 2026-09-01 |
Open specification
WWD, a file format for physical living components
A wetware component is a shape plus a set of spatially varying property fields: cell density, fibre alignment, matrix stiffness, oxygen, morphogen gradient. The fields are the design.
WWD is a container format for that data. It reuses existing vocabularies. The specification and the reference validator are published openly.
| Status | Draft 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Extension | .wwd |
| Container | ZIP, from v0.1 |
| Vocabularies | Cell Ontology, NCBI Taxonomy, UBERON, ChEBI, UO, Cellosaurus, SBOL |
| Patent status | Not patented |
| Governance | To be handed to a neutral custodian |
Send a specification
You get a price and a lead time, or a written reason it cannot be built yet.