SELECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

A method and an apparatus allow for selecting a cultured cell colony or a cultured single cell with a desired characteristic from a plurality of heterogeneous cultured cell colonies or cultured single cells provided in a common culture space. A treatment is applied to the cell colonies or to the single cells, while the cell colonies or the single cells are in the common culture space for obtaining a change in a function of a cellular component of those ones which have the desired characteristic. Individual ones of the cell colonies or of the single cells are then assessed, in the common culture space, for a marker of the change in the function.