Diagnostics for the Real World, Ltd.

Cambridge Enterprise Limited

Craig Alan Wisniewski

Helen Hwai-an Lee

Phillip John Stankus

Magda Anastassova Dineva

Philip Stankus

Shaun Christopher Hazlewood

Jean-Pierre Allain

Grant Timothy Lewis Smetham

Paul Duesbury

Torbjorn Blad

Elipidio Cesar Braga Nadala

Torbjörn Blad

Helen Hwai-An Lee

A device for processing a sample comprises a blister defined by first and second walls. The first wall is flexible allowing the blister to be divided into one or more sealed regions by an external pressure applied to a portion of the first wall. The external pressure is applied in the form of a 2-dimensional shape to form a sealed region having that shape.

Device, system and method for processing a sample

There is provided an automated biological-sample-processing system comprising a pipette, a column of solid-phase material to which nucleic acid binds, a transport apparatus, an air-piston apparatus and an adaptor for coupling the pipette to the transport apparatus and to the air-piston apparatus, in which the adaptor is removably engageable with the transport apparatus and the air-piston apparatus for movement with the transport apparatus during processing of the sample, is couplable to the pipette so that the transport apparatus is controllable to position the pipette and so that the air-piston apparatus is controllable to draw a liquid into the pipette and to expel the liquid from the pipette, and is engageable with the column, in which the adaptor comprises a filter for preventing liquid or aerosol transfer between the pipette or column and the air-piston apparatus.

Apparatus and method for automated sample preparation and adaptor for use in the apparatus

A device for the processing of a sample comprises a location apparatus, a processing chamber for receiving the sample and a plurality of reagent chambers. The reagent chambers have openings defined in the location apparatus. The processing chamber is movable relative to the reagent chambers to enable sequential communication with each reagent chamber in turn.

Device, system and method processing a sample

In a sampler for sampling a first portion of a liquid flow, the liquid flow enters at a sampler inlet (). The sample passes through a valve () into a sample chamber () and then the valve closes, diverting the remainder of the liquid flow to a sampler overflow (). The valve comprises a valve inlet () coupled to the sampler inlet, a valve outlet () opening into the sample chamber and positioned, in use, substantially below the valve inlet, a shut-off chamber () separating the valve outlet from the valve inlet, and a valve overflow () leading from the shut-off chamber to the sampler overflow (). When the liquid level in the sample chamber rises to a predetermined level it disrupts the flow of liquid through the valve outlet and diverts later flow through the valve inlet into the shut-off chamber and through the valve overflow.

Liquid sampler and method

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Craig Alan Wisniewski