Biocoat, Inc.

Agion Technologies L.l.c.

Enzymatics, Inc.

Binax Services, Inc.

James B Johnston

Jeffrey A Trogolo

John L Palmer

Marsha W Timmerman

Elizabeth G Pervin

Elizabeth A Pastecki

Mark Hyman

Kenneth Grady

Amy Stahl

An article including a surface having a coating thereon, in which the coating includes a base coat, firmly adhered to the surface, and a hydrophilic, biocompatible top-coat. An antibiotic ceramic component is dispersed in one or both of the base coat and top-coat. Preferably, the ceramic component is dispersed in the base coat. In a preferred embodiment, the ceramic component is a zeolite with silver ions exchanged onto internal acidic sites of the zeolite, and the top-coat includes a polysaccharide, such as hyaluronan. The zeolite is highly effective in imparting anti-microbial character to the coating.

Bi-laminar, hyaluronan coatings with silver-based anti-microbial properties

A process for separating plasma or serum from mammalian whole blood includes the steps of applying a sample of blood through a hydrophobically faced sample receiving hole positioned in a first upper layer of hydrophobic material to a first layer of fibrous hydrophilic material which has been impregnated with a blood agglutinating agent so that it acts to retain red blood cells but not plasma or serum and layer is sealed at its upper edges to the first layer of hydrophobic material and allowing the liquid portion of the sample to flow downwardly through the first layer of fibrous hydrophilic material into a second layer comprised of a different fibrous hydrophilic material which second layer is sealed at its lower edges to a second layer of hydrophobic material whereby it acts to retain the plasma or serum.

Integral blood plasma or serum isolation, metering and transport device

Oxygen-independent methods, systems and devices for the enzymatic colorimetric assay and detection of biochemical analytes. Two systems are described, both of which produce less than one equivalent of dye per equivalent of substrate, maintaining dye concentrations in the range where Beer's law predicts a linear color-concentration relationship. One system produces an analog color signal from an analog analyte input, the other system produces a digital color signal from an analog analyte input.

Method, system and devices for the assay and detection of biochemical

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