To avoid cleaning costs and to reduce the risk of cross-contamination, a water bath for use in incubators includes a profiled receiver, open at least at the upper face, preferably at the end faces and the upper face, with receiver surfaces extending in the longitudinal direction. A prefabricated disposable vessel for liquid open at the upper face includes vessel walls that lie flush on the receiver surfaces of the receiver. Fastenings are used fix the disposable vessel on the receiver. The water bath also includes a liquid supply, designed for filling the disposable vessel with liquid.

An incubator for cell and tissue culture under controlled atmospheric conditions has a primary air flow control device that forms a primary, preferably laminar flow, air veil across an opening that allows access to the cells or tissue cultures disposed within the incubator. Preferably, most if not all of the air in the primary (laminar flow) air veil is recirculated, and a secondary air flow control device is used that forms a secondary, preferably laminar flow, air veil between the primary (laminar flow) air veil and a user of the incubator.

An imaging system and method for microbial growth detection, counting or identification. One colony may be contrasted in an image that is not optimal for another type of colony. The system and method provides contrast from all available material through space (spatial differences), time (differences appearing over time for a given capture condition) and color space transformation using image input information over time to assess whether microbial growth has occurred for a given sample.

A culture system and a culture device each can minimize the burden on workers and can effectively prevent the effect of temperature changes on culture by performing manipulation of a multilayer culture vessel and the culture in sequence in the same space. The culture system comprises a housing with an internal space in which a multilayer culture vessel including a plurality of trays therein is placed, and a manipulator manipulating the multilayer culture vessel while the multilayer culture vessel is kept in a state placed within the internal space. The multilayer culture vessel is communicated with a liquid supply tube such that a fluid material can be introduced into the multilayer culture vessel from an outside of the housing via the liquid supply tube, or that a fluid can be discharged from the multilayer culture vessel to the outside of the housing via the liquid supply tube.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a biological sample imaging device, including an incubator with an observation window provided on one side; a biological sample cultivation module provided inside the incubator; an imaging module provided outside the incubator for collecting images of a biological sample cultured in the biological sample cultivation module through the observation window, so that the growth process can be dynamically captured, and the environment in the incubator can be conveniently controlled to adapt to various scientific research scenarios. In addition, the isolation inside and outside the incubator can reduce the interference of the imaging module on the biological sample.

The present invention relates to a set comprising an adhesive mat for the shaking platform of a laboratory shaker or shaking incubator, the adhesive mat having a platform side for application to the shaking platform and a support side opposite the platform side, both of which are designed to be adhesive, the set comprising a pressure aid which has a contact surface which is anti-adhesive with respect to the support side of the adhesive mat. The present invention also relates to a use of a pressure aid of this type for the attachment of an adhesive mat to a shaking platform of a laboratory shaker or shaking incubator and to a method for the attachment of an adhesive mat to a shaking platform of a laboratory shaker or shaking incubator.

Provided in the present invention is an incubator capable of producing pressure fluctuations. The incubator comprises an incubator body and a variable pressure apparatus, the incubator body having a variable pressure interface, the variable pressure apparatus being connected to the incubator body by means of the variable pressure interface, and the variable pressure apparatus being used for inputting fluctuating or constant air pressure into the incubator body.

This culture device comprises: a culture container which houses cells, magnetic particles and a culture medium; a temperature adjustment unit for adjusting the temperature of the culture container; a magnet which is provided to the outside of the culture container; a magnetic force adjustment unit for adjusting the magnetic force of the magnet; and a control unit for controlling the operation of the magnetic force adjustment unit. The magnetic force adjustment unit adjusts the magnetic force of the magnet, thereby holding magnetic particles and cells in a predetermined region within the culture container, or dispersing the magnetic particles and cells within the culture container.

Aspects of the invention relate to automated cell culture incubators. In some embodiments, automated cell culture incubators comprise an integrated manipulation device having one or more cell scrapers.

An optimized testing method is used to determine minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of a particular antimicrobic for use with a particular microbe. The testing method includes iteratively imaging the microbes mixed with various concentrations of the antimicrobic. The images are thereafter processed to determine one or more of the amount/count of the microbes in each image, the total area occupied by the microbes in each image, and the ratio between the area occupied by the microbes and the count of the microbes. Once a sufficient amount of data is collected, the MIC is determined based on one or more of the count, area, and ratio datasets.