Patent ID: 7915034

Claim:
A biological specimen culturing container adapted for culturing biological specimens such as oocytes, embryos, stem cells, tissue cells and the like, said culturing container including: a) a bottom wall and an outermost side wall; b) a plurality of specimen-culturing chambers in said container, each of said chambers having an outermost chamber side wall which separates each chamber from all of the other chambers; and c) some of said chambers being subdivided into individual interconnected compartments for receiving the specimens to be cultured, said compartments being interconnected in a manner which will allow each specimen in each of said compartments to share culturing media and specimen growth byproducts with specimens in each of the other compartments in each of said subdivided chambers; and d) said compartments in said chambers being formed by inner walls and said compartments being interconnected by openings in said inner walls.