Active Life was founded in 2007 in Santa Barbara, California by Davis Brimer and Alex Proctor and is committed to providing scientists and clinicians with technologies to help people live and prolong an Active Life. Active Life was originally started to commercialize Reference Point Indentation instruments¹ ² ³ based on the inventions and research of Professor Paul Hansma at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

With his 20+ years of research and inventing for in vitro biological materials characterization, Dr. Hansma realized an urgent, unmet need for technologies that can precisely quantify the intrinsic mechanical properties of bone and other tissues in vivoº.  Active Life is addressing this need by further developing a new genre of scientific and medicalº instrumentation.  This new translational technology is uncovering important information about tissue mechanical properties that, until now, remained ‘a black-box’ in scientific and medical knowledge.

The Active Life BioDent™ 1000 is a translational Reference Point Indentationº (RPI) instrument that allows for intrinsic tissue mechanical properties research without test-environment limitations.  The BioDent™ returns information that is similar to dynamic, instrumented indentation, but is completely reinvented for translational research of biological tissues whether in vitro, in situ, or in vivoº. These capabilities are encompassed in an intuitive system designed for those who begin their research with the end in mind: clinical utility and commercialization.