Smiths Detection-watford Limited

Smiths Detection Inc.

Azur Environmental

Jay Lewington

Douglas Jason Green

Carmelo Volpe

John Walter Czajka

Piers Sebastian Harding

Gary Howard

William Richard Mawer

Thomas David Ford

Catherine Mills

Michael Roy Fairs

Barry Boyes

Sandy Primrose

Colin Fewster

Katherine Isles

Jason Betley

Apparatus for preparing a biological sample for PCR analysis has an inlet () for receiving the sample () and a sieve () through which the sample is forced by screwing down an inlet cap (). A lysis solution between two rupturable seals (and) is effective to disrupt the cells of the sample and release nucleic acid. The apparatus is mounted releasably on a PCR machine () having a motor () releasably coupled with a drive mechanism () in the apparatus to effect a rotary and a vertical up and down movement of its components (). The apparatus has a transparent cuvette () and a needle () extending to the lower end of the cuvette, by which the prepared sample is dispensed to the cuvette for PCR analysis.

Sample preparation apparatus

A method and apparatus for providing assay information to a portable detection unit, by way of a remote server in communication with the portable detection unit or a consumable with stored information for use with the portable detection unit. Global Positioning System (GPS) information is provided to a portable detection unit having a GPS receiver, so that the unit can determine its current position, including altitude. Based on the determined position, assays and parameters, such as PCR melt temperatures, can be selected. Assays to be performed by the portable detection unit can be selected based on the results of a prior assay.

Portable detection system and method

A cell-derived assay reagent prepared from cells which have been killed by treatment with an antibiotic selected from the bleomycin-phleomycin family of antibiotics but which retain a signal-generating metabolic activity such as bioluminescence.

Method of making bioluminescent assay reagent based on non-viable E. coli

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Bisley, United Kingdom

Jay Lewington