Multi-purpose container for biological materials and methods

Abstract

Disclosed is a multi-purpose container that provides a single safe environment for multiple processes during two-dimensional and three-dimensional culture of biological materials. This container is developed to protect the quantity and quality of the material in one place during different processes. These processes may include culturing, freezing, thawing, staining, immunolabeling, examining under optical microscopes (e.g., light, fluorescence, confocal microscopes), preparing samples for histological or electron microscopic examination or molecular assays, and making ready the specimen for transplantation or implantation. In one example, container has two parts. The lower part contains central portion for holding the biological material. The upper portion may include openings to allow gas flow. There might also be an alternative central portion of the upper part. The closing system between the upper and lower parts provides two positions, one allowing a gas flow and one blocking the gas flow.

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