Riken Corporation

Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

Ryouhei Tsukada

Yoshiki Sasai

Kanehisa Yokoyama

Hayao Tanaka

Keiko Muguruma

Provided are a culture vessel with which an embryonic body can be formed efficiently from human embryonic stem cells, and a method for culturing human embryonic stem cells using the vessel. There is provided a vessel for culturing human embryonic stem cells, the culture vessel having two or more wells (), wherein each of the wells () has a tubular body () and a funnel-shaped bottom () provided at one end of the body (), the bottom () being a concave curved surface at the center () of the bottom () and the bottom () having an opening angle (&#x3b8;) in range of 60 to 100&#xb0;. There is provided a method for culturing human embryonic stem cells by using said vessel for culturing human embryonic stem cells.

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Kobe, Japan

Ryouhei Tsukada