Abstract:
Disclosed is a cartridge for the detection of the presence, absence and/or amount of a target nucleotide sequence in a sample comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences. The cartridge comprises a generic part and one or more separate application-specific parts, which are connectable to the generic part. Also disclosed is a system for the detection of the presence, absence and/or amount of a target nucleotide sequence in a sample comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences. This system comprising a reusable apparatus, wherein said apparatus is configured to receive a cartridge and to control a process for the detection of the presence, absence and/or amount of a target nucleotide sequence in the sample, being present in said cartridge.
Abstract:
Provided are a centrifugal force-based microfluidic device for separating and amplifying a nucleic acid of a target cell and a microfluidic system including the same. The microfluidic device includes a rotary platform; a target cell nucleic acid extraction unit; and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) unit wherein in a microfluidic structure arranged in the platform and connected to the target cell nucleic acid extraction unit.
Abstract:
A microfluidic device having a microchannel structure in which there are one or more inlet ports, one or more outlet ports, and a structural unit in communication with at least one of said ports, wherein the structural unit is a mixing unit that enables mixing of aliquots of liquid that are miscible with each other, and which said mixing unit comprises: a microcavity (203) with an outlet opening (223); an inlet arrangement (201) linked to the microcavity, and a mixing microconduit (202) connected to the outlet opening, wherein said microcavity has a volume sufficient to contain simultaneously the aliquots to be mixed.
Abstract:
Provided is a microfluidic apparatus including: a microfluidic structure for providing spaces for receiving a fluid and for forming channels, through which the fluid flows; and valves for controlling the flow of fluid through the channels in the microfluidic apparatus. The microfluidic structure includes: a sample chamber; a sample separation unit receiving the sample from the sample chamber and separating a supernatant from the sample by using a centrifugal force; a testing unit receiving the supernatant from the sample separation unit for detecting a specimen from the supernatant using an antigen-antibody reaction, and a quality control chamber for identifying reliability of the test.
Abstract:
A device for analysis used for transferring a solution to a measurement spot 38 by a centrifugal force and reading in which a reaction liquid located at the measurement spot 38 is optically accessed. An operation cavity 30 and a receiving cavity 32 are arranged from the upstream side to the downstream side of the transfer. The operation cavity 30 and the receiving cavity 32 communicate with each other via a connection section 59 to transfer the solution of the operation cavity 30 to the receiving cavity 32. The connection section 59 is located inside the liquid level of a diluted solution retained in the operation cavity 30, relative to a rotation axis 102.
Abstract:
Method and system for carrying out heterogeneous chemical or biological reactions, the method comprising the steps of providing an analytical device comprising at least one liquid processing unit, the liquid processing unit comprising at least one reaction chamber, and at least a first inlet channel in fluid communication with the reaction chamber, supplying to the reaction chamber via the first inlet channel or a second inlet channel analyte capturing particles, supplying to the reaction chamber via the first inlet channel or the second inlet channel a liquid sample containing at least an analyte of interest, confining by an equilibrium of forces the analyte capturing particles in a particle rearrangement zone comprised in the reaction chamber, said forces comprising a drag force Fd generated by liquids flowing through the first inlet channel and a counter-oriented force Fg, capturing analytcs present in the liquid sample with the particles in the particle rearrangement zone.
Abstract:
A clinical examination disk according to the invention includes a disk body in a disk form, and at least one cell formed in the disk body, wherein the cell comprises a specimen reservoir formed in the disk body and having a specimen injecting port, a reaction tank formed in the disk body so as to position nearer to the outer circumference of the body than a position of the specimen reservoir, and holding a reagent which is reactive with the specimen and is beforehand gelatinized, a first narrow tube formed in the disk body, and communicating to the specimen reservoir and the reaction tank, and a second narrow tube formed in the disk body, and having one end connected to the reaction tank and the other end made open.