Abstract: A germ-free glove box includes: a housing in which a germ-free space is formed, the housing including a connector to which a container housing an object is connected; and a glove provided at a front plate of the housing to allow an operating personnel to perform an operation in the germ-free space from the outside of the housing. In this germ-free glove box, the connector is provided on an upper plate of the housing. In the germ-free glove box outside spaces beside the box are effectively utilized, and a large working space is secured at around the bottom surface of a germ-free space.

Abstract: In order to culture the pluripotent stem cell which can be variously differentiated, while preventing the cross contamination between the different cells and securing the safety of the products; extending a main transport path 31 outwardly from a stem cell conditioning area 20, the stem cell conditioning area 20 including a treatment room 21 for inducing pluripotent stem cell from a somatic cell or an egg cell, or a treatment room 21 for receiving and conditioning pluripotent stem cell induced in other facilities; branching at least one branched transport path 32 from the main transport path 31; and arranging along each branched transport path 32, a cell culture area 40 including culture rooms 41 to 44 for culturing the stem cell and an analysis room 45 for analyzing the cultured cell, respectively.

Abstract: A laboratory system has a plurality of bottom opening sample transport pods for carrying one or more cassettes with cell culture vessels therein may have an aseptic interior environment and may cooperate with cell culture growing/processing stations having load ports allowing transfer of the cassettes with cell culture vessels into the stations while maintaining the aseptic integrity of the interior of the pods and the cassette and cell culture vessels. Internal environmental monitoring and control, purging, and tracking as well as automated robotic operation may be provided.

Abstract: In order to culture the pluripotent stem cell which can be variously differentiated, while preventing the cross contamination between the different cells and securing the safety of the products; extending a main transport path 31 outwardly from a stem cell conditioning area 20, the stem cell conditioning area 20 including a treatment room 21 for inducing pluripotent stem cell from a somatic cell or an egg cell, or a treatment room 21 for receiving and conditioning pluripotent stem cell induced in other facilities; branching at least one branched transport path 32 from the main transport path 31; and arranging along each branched transport path 32, a cell culture area 40 including culture rooms 41 to 44 for culturing the stem cell and an analysis room 45 for analyzing the cultured cell, respectively.

Abstract: A cell management system includes an automatic culture system installed in a cell culture factory and provided with an automatic culture device for automatically culturing cells and a cell management part for managing information on a state of the cells being cultured; a memory part connected to the automatic culture system and for storing information on the state of the cells being cultured; and an external computer installed in a side of a cell ordering party and connected to the memory part. The automatic culture system sends the information on the state of the cells managed by the cell management part to the memory part in real time. The external computer includes a display part for displaying the information on the state of the cells stored in the memory part thereon and a manipulation part for ordering the cells under culture within the cell culture factory.

Abstract: An automatic culture system includes a transfer part configured to transfer a first airtight container which accommodates cells in a sealed state, and an automatic culture device configured to receive the first airtight container transferred by the transfer part, take out the cells from the first airtight container and culture the taken-out cells. The automatic culture device is configured to automatically perform replacement of a culture medium.

Abstract: This invention is aimed at providing a cold working die steel successfully reduced in the hardness, and increased in readiness in the cold workability (forging, pressing and so forth) and machinability (milling, drilling, endmilling processing, grinding and lathe turning). A cold working die steel aimed at solving the above-described subject consists essentially of, in % by mass, 0.6%?C?1.60%, 0.10%?Si?1.20%, 0.10%?Mn?0.60%, 5.5%?Cr?13.0%, 0.80%?Mo+0.5W?2.10%, 0.10%?V?0.40%, 0.0002%?O?0.0080%, 0.001%?A1?0.10%, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; has transformation point Ar3 in the range from 750° C. to 850° C., with both ends inclusive; has a mean circle-equivalent diameter of a carbide, which belongs to a circle-equivalent diameter range from 0.1 ?m to 3 ?m observed in a section of a structure obtained after spherodizing a sample that was heated at a temperature of (Ar3+50° C.) or above and 1,050° C. or below, of 0.25 ?m to 0.