CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATION DEVICE

1 . A controlled environment observation device comprising:

a body;

a heated shelf located in the body;

a plurality of shelf openings in the heated shelf;

a plurality of embryonic chambers removably installed in the plurality of shelf openings, each of the plurality of embryonic chambers comprising:

an optically transparent heated shelf;

a specimen dish removably attached to the top of the optically transparent heated shelf, the specimen dish having a generally optically transparent bottom;

an x,y,z camera system located in each of the embryonic chambers and below the specimen dish and the optically transparent heated shelf;

a computer located in the controlled environment observation device; and

a controller in signal communication with the xyz camera system and the computer.

2 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , wherein each of the embryonic chambers can be individually removed and replaced for service or maintenance while the remaining embryonic chambers remain operational.

3 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , wherein each plurality of embryonic chambers has an upper ledge configured to allow the embryonic chamber to hang from the heated shelf when in the shelf opening.

4 . The controlled environment observation device claim 1 , wherein each x, y, z camera system also comprises an articulating stage that allows a camera in the x, y, z camera system to change its angle with respect to the specimen dish.

5 . The controlled environment observation device claim 4 , wherein each articulating stage can change the camera angle α0, to angles α1 and α2, where α0 is generally 90° with respect to a horizontal plane.

6 . The controlled environment observation device claim 1 , wherein each specimen dish comprises at least one well, wherein the well is a depression in the dish, that is configured to allow a biological specimen in the specimen dish to sink into and center in the well.

7 . The controlled environment observation device claim 6 , wherein each well has generally an inverted truncated cone shape.

8 . The controlled environment observation device claim 1 , where each embryonic chamber has a controlled incubated environment configured for the proper growth and development of a biological specimen in the specimen dish.

9 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 8 , further comprising:

a gas inlet located in the controlled incubated environment, the gas inlet in fluid communication with a gas supply.

10 . The controlled environment observation device claim 8 , where each controlled incubated environment contains transducers to measure environmental conditions in the controlled incubated environment, and where the transducers are in signal communication with the computer.

11 . The controlled environment observation device claim 10 , where the transducers comprise:

a pH measuring transducer;

a temperature measuring transducer;

an air composition transducer.

12 . The controlled environment observation device claim 8 , where each embryonic chamber has a sealable chamber that encloses the incubated environment.

13 . The controlled environment observation device claim 12 , where each sealable chamber comprises at least one wall, a top, and a bottom.

14 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , further comprising:

a touch screen control panel located on the body and in signal communication with the computer.

15 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , wherein the computer contains a security program that prevents unauthorized access to the device.

16 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 further comprising a joystick control in communication with the computer, and configured to control the movement and location of a camera in the xyz camera system.

17 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , wherein each plurality of embryonic chambers has at least one gas port.

18 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , wherein each x, y, z camera system comprises:

an x motor in operable communication with a camera;

a y motor in operable communication with the camera, and where the x motor and y motor can move the camera generally about a horizontal plane below the specimen dish;

a z motor in operable communication with the camera, and where the z motor can move the camera generally towards and way from the specimen dish.

19 . The controlled environment observation device of claim 1 , wherein each of the embryonic chambers further comprises:

a platform;

an opening in the platform housing the optically transparent heated shelf.

20 . A controlled environment observation device comprising:

a body;

at least one multi-area embryonic chamber located in the body, the multi-area embryonic chamber comprising:

at least one outer wall forming a perimeter;

a platform generally located within the perimeter;

an opening in the platform;

an optically transparent heated shelf located in the opening;

a first plurality of inner walls forming a second plurality of volumes with the at least one outer wall;

a second plurality of specimen dishes configured to be removeably attached to the optically transparent heated shelf in each of the second plurality of volumes, each of the specimen dishes having a generally optically transparent bottom;

an x,y,z camera system located beneath the optically transparent heated shelf, and configured to move a camera to any of the specimen dishes.