Illumina Corporation

Quidel Corporation

Alere San Diego, Inc.

Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough, Inc.

Quidel Cardiovascular Inc.

Justin Davidson

Max Warren Pollock

Emerico Alberto Brewer

Erik Allegoren

Olaf Piepenburg

Paul Crivelli

Robert Nicholas Dean

Catherine Jean Greenwood

Austin Derfus

Oliver Nentwich

Karthikeyan Kumaravadivelu

Maulik Vinod Patel

Alexander Schenk Zu Schweinsberg

Wesley A Cox-Muranami

Armando R Tovar

Tuan Do

Austin Matthew Derfus

Cameron Mar

Matthew Wang

Travis Beckman

Zhenning Cao

Payam Taheri

Erik Mikael Olsson

Christopher George Sip

Cyril Delattre

Well assemblies and related methods are disclosed. In accordance with an implementation, an apparatus includes a liquid reservoir containing a liquid and a well assembly including a body, a hydrophobic venting membrane, and a cover. The body defines a well and has an opening and a port. The port is couplable to the liquid reservoir. The hydrophobic venting membrane is coupled to the body and covers the opening and cover covers the hydrophobic venting membrane. As the liquid is flowed into the well via the port, the hydrophobic venting membrane vents gas contained within the well.

Well assemblies and related methods

Cartridge component

Vial assembly

A microfluidic device includes an inlet port configured to receive a sample, a first reaction chamber fluidically coupled to the inlet port, a first pump fluidically coupled to the inlet port, a second pump fluidically coupled to a mixing chamber, a metering channel fluidically coupled to the first reaction chamber and to the mixing chamber, and one or more second reaction chambers fluidically coupled to the mixing chamber. The first pump is configured to move fluid from the inlet port to the first reaction chamber and from the first pump to the inlet port. The second pump is configured to move fluid from the second pump to the mixing chamber, from the first reaction chamber to the mixing chamber, and from the mixing chamber to the one or more second reaction chambers.

Microfluidic devices and related methods

A combination of components in a capillary flow channel use capillary forces to passively control the movement of liquid samples within a microfluidic device. To detect a target, a liquid sample introduced to a proximal portion of a capillary channel of a microfluidic device moves by capillary action along the specific components of capillary channel.

Microfluidic device, system and method

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Justin Davidson