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US 2004/0064013 A1Published application
Incubator and incubation method monitoring the organism to be incubated
OwnerDaniel Attiasinventor
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Abstract
An incubator including a substantially airtight heated chamber equipped with a door to access the heated chamber; a culture plate with multiple wells placed in the heated chamber, the culture plate being adapted to contain an organism in at least one of the wells; and means associated with the heated chamber and controlled from the exterior to remove the organism from a well in which it is contained to put it in another well filled with new culture medium.
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An incubator comprising:
- a substantially airtight heated chamber equipped with a door to access the heated chamber;
- a culture plate with multiple wells placed in the heated chamber, the culture plate being adapted to contain an organism in at least one of the wells;
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- means associated with the heated chamber and controlled from the exterior to remove the organism from a well and to put the organism in another well containing new culture medium.
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A method of incubating an organism:
- placing the organism into a substantially airtight, heated chamber;
- incubating the organism in a culture well containing culture medium;
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- changing the culture medium n times, n being a whole number larger than 1 and smaller than 50, by:
- i) placing the organism in one of a series of (n+1) wells of a culture plate placed in the heated chamber, while the n other wells of the series do not contain any organisms,
- ii) displacing the organism, without removing it from the heated chamber, from the well and putting the organism into the next well of the series containing new culture medium and
- iii) repeating the displacement as many times as there remain available wells.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.