Exact Sciences Corporation

Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.

Medtronic, Inc.

Baxter International Inc.

Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.

Smith + Nephew

Baxter Healthcare Sa

Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC

David A Schuelke

James Grant Skakoon

David Stuart Harris

Thomas W Ruckdeschel

Scott Alexander Lewis

Jonathan David Tuckwell

Sam M Jang

Andrew Murray Gow

Gerald A Thoe

Joseph E Schiestle

Krystal A Burger

Timothy A Parmer

Jad A Lunde

David B Wolgemuth

Jing Yang Lu

Jeremy J Odegard

Kenneth C Gardeski

Weston Blaine Griffin

Andrzej M Malewicz

Stanten C Spear

Joseph Michael Ferrante

Jerome A Grunstad

Wayne M Phillips

Jeff Jannicke

Richard Patrick Manahan

Simon Freed

Dan Harris

Paul L Weber

Austin Lines

Martin E Olson Gunderson

Si Janna

Elizabeth A Ellingson

Krystal Burger

Thomas Mayr

Debbie L Kirihara

LEWIS;Scott Alexander

Provided herein is technology relating to collecting and containing samples and particularly, but not exclusively, to technology for collecting and containing a stool specimen. The technology provides a device for collecting and containing a stool specimen, the device comprising ergonomic features optimized for a geriatric user. The technology also provides an enclosing holder for securing the ergonomic stool specimen container in a leak-proof manner e.g., during mechanical shaking.

Ergonomic stool specimen container and enclosing holder systems, methods, and kits

Disclosed herein is a cell harvesting instrument suitable for concentrating cells from a source suspension of cells and/or washing said cells, the instrument comprising: a housing for accommodating mechanical elements including at least one fluid pump, at least one valve; and a processing kit removably insertable into the housing, said kit including a generally flat frame having or supporting plural sealed fluid paths arranged in a generally flat plane and such that fluids in the paths do not contact said mechanical elements, wherein at least portions of the fluid paths comprise flexible tubes, the outer surfaces of which are manipulateable by the or each fluid pump, to provide fluid flow in one or more of the paths and/or by the or each valve to restrict fluid flow in one or more of the paths. In an embodiment, the kit comprises also a fluid processing reservoir and a filter suitable for separating cells from fluid in said paths. A transfer mechanism for moving and weighing the fluid processing reservoir is disclosed also.

Cell harvesting apparatus

A dry powder inhaler includes a dose container assembly having a dose container disk with opposing upper and lower surfaces, a first row of circumferentially spaced apart dose containers at a first radius and a second row of circumferentially spaced apart dose containers at a second radius. The dose containers have dry powder therein and are sealed via a first flexible sealant over apertures in the upper surface and a second flexible sealant over apertures in the lower surface. A piercing mechanism includes two reciprocating piercers that serially alternate between the two rows of dose containers in the dose container disk. A rotatable ramp disk includes first and second sets of circumferentially spaced-apart ramp elements in staggered, concentric relationship that are configured to move the first and second piercing members between retracted and extended positions.

Dry powder inhalers with dual piercing members and methods of operating same

Dry powder inhalers with dual piercing members

Adapters are provided for establishing fluid communication between an anesthetic agent container and an anesthetic vaporizer having a fluid port. The adapter may be mountable on the vaporizer to cooperate with the spout of an anesthetic agent container or may be mountable on an anesthetic agent container to cooperate with the fluid port of an anesthetic vaporizer to provide a sealing and/or retaining relationship therebetween.

Adapters for use with an anesthetic vaporizer

Dry powder inhalers with dual piercing members and related devices and methods

Devices and methods for mixing a clotting agent with other inputs such as blood, blood derived product, bone marrow, and/or bone marrow derived product to form a congealed mixture.

Composite mixer

In one preferred aspect, a set of interlocking instrument handles is provided that permits a user to directly engage a locking element to releasably lock one instrument to another instrument. In another preferred aspect, a locking collar is provided for locking instrument handles to one another. In a further preferred aspect, a method is provided for locking instrument handles to one another.

Releasably interlocking instrument handle and method of use thereof

A slitting tool for severing a tubular body includes a body portion, extending along a first axis, joined to a nose portion extending along a second axis, the second axis extending at an angle between approximately 5 degrees and approximately 90 degrees with respect to the first axis. The nose portion includes means for severing the tubular body while the body portion includes means for gripping by a hand of a user such that a wrist of the hand is in a neutral position when the means for severing is directed toward the tubular body.

Slitting tool

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Hudson, WI, United States of America

David A Schuelke