Patent ID: 8518692

Claim:
A gas permeable culture device comprising: a) an access port, and b) a side wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall, and c) more than one scaffold oriented one above the other, each of said scaffolds separated by a space, said space forming a cell compartment, and d) a manifold that connects said access port to said cell compartments, and e) more than one of said scaffolds having at least one scaffold opening and at least one gas compartment residing within a portion of a void space of said scaffold opening of at least more than one of said scaffolds, said gas compartment having an opening in communication with ambient gas and said gas compartment having at least two walls and at least one wall comprised of gas permeable material, and said at least one wall comprised of gas permeable material not being a scaffold, wherein said at least one wall comprised of gas permeable material of said gas compartment is oriented generally perpendicular to said scaffold.