摘要:
A Petri dish has members including a receptacle and an additional lid, both having an axisymmetric shape and which are delimited by a bottom wall and at least one peripheral wall, the receptacle and lid bearing complementary lock sections so that when a stack is formed by superposing at least two dishes, borne by a first component of a first dish which can engage with the lock section of the second component of the second dish, thus making them rigidly connected to one another. These lock sections cooperate by relative rotational movement of one dish with respect to the other, the lock sections being borne by the peripheral walls and including protrusions.
摘要:
A method of staging a tissue sample cassette, including a cassette body and a lid, from an upper position in a frame used during a tissue embedding process to a lower position in the frame. The method comprises coupling the cassette with the frame such that the cassette is in the upper position and positively stopped at the upper position by first structure on a wall of the frame. The cassette is moved relative to the frame to the lower position by selectively engaging the cassette with a staging mechanism. An external force is applied to the cassette with the staging mechanism in a direction to move the cassette from the upper position toward the lower position. The cassette is retained in the lower position using second structure on the wall of the frame, such that the cassette is exposed for embedding the cassette in an embedding medium and subsequently slicing the tissue sample embedded in the embedding medium.
摘要:
The invention provides a coverslip for automated decoverslipping of a tissue bearing slide comprising a horizontal base portion having a length, width, and height, at least two side wall portions extending downward from opposite sides of the base portion each having a length and width and h; and wherein the total wall volume to base volume ratio is greater than or equal to approximately 0.025.
摘要:
An inlet closure assembly includes a housing that defines an inlet configured to receive a fluid, such as airflow from the surrounding environment. The inlet closure assembly also includes a seal member that defines an inlet path in fluid communication with the inlet defined by the housing. The inlet closure assembly further includes a seat member configured to seat with respect to the seal member. The seat member is configured to obstruct the inlet path in its seated orientation. The inlet closure assembly also includes an actuation member configured to move the seat member into and out of seated engagement with the seal member. The inlet closure assembly further includes a biasing member for biasing the seat member into seated engagement with the seal member when the seat member is positioned to obstruct the inlet. The biasing member can be implemented using a magnet, a spring, and so forth.
摘要:
An apparatus (1) is for DNA amplification with quantitative measurements. A biological sample is held in a cell (2) for the amplification, the cell (2) defining a single space within which the sample rotates. On one side a copper heater (3) is located to supply heat to the cell (2), and on the other side there is a cooling copper block (4) withdrawing heat from the cell. The locations of the heater (3) and the cooling block (4) generate a natural convection loop internally within the cell (2) without need for active cooling—the block (4) passively cooling by withdrawing heat from the direction of the heater (3). A detector (9, 27) captures readings in real time and a processor (10) generates an S-curve for change of sample emission with time. The S-curve (FIGS. 4 and 5) also includes a thermal cycle number corresponding to the time parameter, so that the S-curve is given in the traditional qPCR intensity vs. cycle number.
摘要:
An interchangeable disposable measuring cassette for insertion into a measuring apparatus for detecting target molecules in a liquid sample by measuring fluorescence emission has a flow measurement cell in which an excitation radiation provided by the measuring apparatus produces an evanescent field in the liquid sample beyond a boundary layer for the liquid sample and the measurement cell. To be better able to ensure that no sample liquid can cross from the measurement cell into the measuring apparatus, the measuring cassette includes a body including an optically transparent material and a base in contact with the underside of the body. The measurement cell is formed by a cutout provided in the body, the base, or both. The areas on which the body and the base are on top of one another around this cutout are connected to one another directly and in fluid-tight fashion by laser welding.
摘要:
Sample liquid is collected in a chamber downstream of a separating device. Adjoining the chamber are a plurality of channels which guide the sample liquid to one or more investigating regions.
摘要:
A system for diagnostic testing may include a meter for performing a diagnostic test on a sample applied to a test media, the meter having a housing and an interface for receiving a signal representing coding information, and a container configured to contain test media compatible with the meter, the container having a coding element associated therewith. Additionally, the system may provide a mechanism for removing the meter from an interconnected test container and reattaching it to a new container using on-container coding methods that can recalibrate the meter for the new container of test strips.
摘要:
The present invention provides a liquid sampling, storage, transfer and delivery device comprising housing containing a porous nib. The porous nib in the device contacts the sample, collects the sample, stores the sample, transports the sample inside its porous matrix and releases the sample from the porous matrix upon demand.
摘要:
Container (10, 10′) for the laboratory area, having: a body (1) with a layer (2) that is opaque to an optical reader, is applied to the body and has clearances (21) in the form of machine-readable data, the body (1) having at least one local material modification (3), and the material modification (3) together with the opaque layer (2) forming a reading area (6), in which the machine-readable data can be read from the outside by an optical reader on the basis of the optical contrast between the material modification (3) and the opaque layer (2).