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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a microplate against evaporation by a cover, and lift a microplate lid during an optical analysis of a specimen in the microplate reader so that measurement can be conducted.SOLUTION: The method of optically measuring a microplate 8 in a microplate reader 1 having an optical measurement/detection device 2 includes: arranging the microplate 8 covered with a lid on a microplate support medium 4; moving the microplate backward into a housing of the microplate reader 1 by a movement unit 5; lifting a microplate lid 7 from the microplate 8; measuring the microplate 8 with the microplate lid 7 lifted; exchanging the microplate lid 7 on the microplate 8; and moving the microplate support medium 4 and the microplate 8 covered with the lid out of the housing 3 of the microplate reader 1 by the movement unit 5.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for examining biological cells or cell cultures in a micro-plate reader.SOLUTION: The method for examining biological cells or cell cultures in a micro-plate reader (1) includes the steps of: receiving a micro-plate (2) with wells (3) containing biological cells or the like by a receiving device (4); positioning the wells (3) with respect to measuring instruments (5", 6, 7, and 8) of the micro-plate reader (1); and detecting integral detecting measurement signals by the measuring instruments (5", 6, 7, and 8). The biological cells or the like in the wells (3) are irradiated with an illumination source (9) of the micro-plate reader (1) and are imaged by an imaging camera (10). Respective detected integral signals are compared with images of the biological cells or the like in corresponding wells (3) by processors (11' and 11") and are related to the depicted number, adherence, confluency, or morphology of the biological cells or the like.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cartridge having a working film for operating a droplet sample using an electrode array, and a droplet operation system where the cartridge is placed.SOLUTION: A cartridge 1 has: a body part 2 which has many wells and is configured to hold agent or a sample 6' inside; an upper structure 7 which is flexibly deformable and configured to seal an upper side of the well; a bottom part structure 8 which can be bored and is configured to seal a bottom side of the well; a working film 10 which is positioned below a lower surface 4 of the body part and has a hydrophobic upper surface 11; a peripheral spacer 9 which connects the working film to the body part; a gap 12 which is determined by the peripheral spacer; and many boring elements 13 which is configured to bore the bottom part structure. The system 40 has an electrode array 20 on which the cartridge can be placed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose an alternative slide transfer mechanism for a laser scanner device for a fluorescent sample.SOLUTION: The laser scanner device (1) is equipped with: a motor-driven sample table (2) for holding a sample slide; a first optical system for providing at least one laser beam; and a scanner apparatus for deflecting the laser beam toward the sample, wherein the scanner head is configured to be moveable back and forth in a direction of a scanning axis or X axis of a coordinate system. The laser scanner device (1) is also equipped with: a detector for detecting an emission beam bundle coming from the sample; and a second optical system for forwarding the emission beam bundle to the detector. The slide transfer mechanism for the laser scanner device (1) is characterized in that it includes a motorized transport device (3) that is configured for transferring a sample slide from a storage unit (4) of the laser scanner device (1) to the sample table (2) and back.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide sample tubing and a system for improving the supply of individual DNA samples on FTA card or other carriers by means of robot operation. SOLUTION: In this system, container cavities (3) and sample tubing (2) of 96 or 384 racks (1) with SBS footprints are suitably designed so as to be taken from these container cavities (3) through robot operation. This sample tubing (2) is equipped with internal shoulder (4) for accommodating a single portion (6), of at least one sample carrier (preferably, a discrete DNA sample), and clamping body section (5) for tightly holding the internal shoulder. The sample carrier is selected from a group comprising a FTA card, a filter paper, a cellulose film and a resolving gel. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose a pipette apparatus for sucking and distribution liquid. SOLUTION: In the pipette apparatus 1, having a fluid space 7, to which a pressure converter 11 having a pressure sensor 12 is mounted to a gas-filled space 15, the fluid space 7 is demarcated by a pipette chip 2, a first tube 5 for connecting the pipette chip 2 to a pump 4, and an operating section 6 in the pump 4. The pipette apparatus 1 further has impulse-generating means 16, 18, 19 operating in contact with a column 10, in a system liquid 8 in the fluid space 7. The impulse-generating means 16, 18, 19 are designed to guide vertical variations to the system liquid column 10, so as to generate variations in the pressure, in the gas-filled space pneumatically connected to the fluid space 7. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI