Patent ID: 8431401

Claim:
A cultivating method of a culture including a cell and/or tissue, comprising: putting the culture including the cell, the tissue or both thereof into a tube made from a semi-permeable membrane, through which a culture fluid can pass, and sealing the tube; disposing a culture bed in a culture chamber which stores the culture fluid and in which the culture fluid is circulated, disposing the tube on a disposing part of the culture bed, the disposing part having elasticity so as to be curved by a load and be restored to its original form by cancellation of the load, and inserting the tube into each through hole in standing walls to hold the tube on the disposing part, the standing walls facing each other with the disposing part therebetween; curving the disposing part by imparting the load to a back side of the culture bed to apply bending motion to the culture in the tube; restoring the disposing part to its original form by canceling the load from the back side to apply the bending motion to the culture in the tube in a direction where the disposing part is restored; and repeating the steps of said curving and restoring at least once, wherein the bending motion is applied to the culture in the tube periodically by restoration movement of the culture bed which results from the load to the culture bed and the cancellation of the load, and the culture fluid is supplied to the culture in the tube.