Petri-dish for cell cultivation and microscopy
AssigneeMolecular Machines & Industries AG
InventorStefan Niehren
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Abstract
A dish for cell cultivation and microscopy is provided, comprising a ring and an outer ridge upwardly and axially protruding therefrom, wherein the ring is covered at its bottom side with a transparent membrane and, thus, forms a recess delimited by the inner side of the ring and the membrane, characterized in that the recess is filled with an adhesive filling. Alternatively, a dish for cell cultivation and microscopy is provided, comprising a base and an outer ridge protruding upwardly and axially at its rim, wherein the base and the outer ridge are made of a transparent plastic, the base together with the inner side of the outer ridge forms a recess filled with an adhesive filling, and the thickness of the base and the filling together is less than about 1 mm.
Claims15
A system for cell cultivation and laser dissection microscopy, comprising:
- (a) a dish and (b) a ring insert covered with a laser-microdissection membrane,
- wherein the dish comprises
- (i) a base, and
- (ii) an outer ridge,
- wherein the base comprises a recess defined by:
- (1) a ring comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, an outer surface and an inner surface, and
- (2) a transparent membrane comprising a top surface and a bottom surface,
- wherein the top surface of the transparent membrane is attached to the bottom surface of the ring and defines a bottom surface of the recess,
- wherein the recess is filled with an adhesive filling,
- wherein the outer ridge of the dish protrudes upwardly and axially from the outer surface of the ring, and
- wherein when the ring insert is placed in the dish, the adhesive filling adheres to the laser micro-dissection membrane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.