Nova Biomedical Corporation

Thermo Biostar Inc.

John C Balsavich, Jr

John Zeis

Jeffrey W Steaffens

Jeffrey C Chien

Alan J Fujii

Charles Bickoff

James E Maynard

Richard D McEachern

David H Dicks

David D Clark

Jonas S Campos

James Baker

Ian Wells

John Dorson

Kunio Kohga

Anand P Panchu

Andrew Ghusson

A fitment for use with a flexible container having a lower fitment member with a fluid conducting opening in a top surface and an upper fitment member with an upper fitment opening in an upper fitment bottom surface where the fluid conducting opening and the upper fitment opening form a fluid passageway or conduit. A wall of the flexible container is compressibly held between the top surface of the lower fitment member and the upper fitment bottom surface. The fitment may also include one or more additional walls of one or more additional flexible containers forming a bag-in-a-bag structure.

Fitment for flexible container

The present invention relates to cost effective analytical instruments for determining the presence or amount of an analyte in a sample. The analytical instruments utilize an assay cartridge which has a sample receiving port and a rotatable carousel containing a plurality of reagent wells. Each reagent well includes a piston element for delivery of reagent to a test surface. The instrument is capable of indexing the assay cartridge to deliver sample and reagents to a test surface in a predetermined and flexibile manner, thus providing an assay protocol which is specific to the type of sample under analysis. The invention also relates to components, features, disposables, reagent delivery systems, accessories, and methods for using such instruments. Appropriate applications include infectious disease testing, cancer detection and monitoring, therapeutic drug level monitoring, allergy testing, environmental testing, food testing, diagnostic testing of human and veterinary samples, and off-line process testing.

Automated point of care detection system including complete sample processing capabilities

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Foxborough, MA, United States of America

John C Balsavich, Jr