Active Life Technologies

Active Life Scientific is a private medical technology company based in Santa Barbara, California that develops tools to directly assess bone material quality. The company was founded in 2007 based on work from UC Santa Barbara physicist Paul Hansma and commercializes Reference Point Indentation technology, which quantifies tissue mechanical properties in vivo or in situ. Its lead clinical product, OsteoProbe, is an FDA-cleared handheld device used to measure Bone Material Strength Index and support bone health assessment beyond standard bone mineral density testing. The company also offers BioDent for preclinical and translational research applications. Active Life Scientific operates at the intersection of medtech, diagnostics, and life science instrumentation rather than traditional therapeutics.