Sysmex Corporation

Keiichiro Shohmi

Yoshinori Ooi

Shoichiro Asada

Kazuki Asao

Katsuhiko Jindo

Fumie Shibata

Hiroaki Tobimatsu

Tomoyuki Nishida

Kazuki Nakabayashi

Koichi Yamagata

Tomokazu Yoshida

Sachiyo Tada

Yuto Sasaki

Daijyu Obinata

Mika Yoshimura

Ryousuke Ishitsubo

Masahiro Nishida

Kazuyuki Iguchi

Ryutaro Shinya

A specimen transport apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a holder including first and second trenches and configured to hold a specimen; a first transporter including a first protrusion to engage with the first trench and configured to transport the holder by transferring the first protrusion engaged with the first trench in an extension direction of the second trench; a second transporter including a second protrusion to engage with the second trench and configured to transport the holder by transferring the second protrusion engaged with the second trench in an extension direction of the first trench. The first trench is formed in at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the holder. The second trench is formed in at least one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the holder, and is formed to extend to a lateral surface of the holder.

Specimen transport apparatus, specimen measurement apparatus, specimen transport method, and holder

Disclosed is a specimen processing apparatus for genetic testing. The apparatus includes: a mode setting section configured to receive a setting of an operation mode from: an emulsion preparation mode for preparing a water-in-oil type (W/O type) emulsion having dispersed therein a plurality of droplets, each droplet containing a specimen which contains DNA and a bead to which a reagent component necessary for amplifying a target DNA molecule is bound; and an emulsion breaking mode for breaking the emulsion and collecting beads from the droplets; and a controller programmed to control the transfer unit and the dispensing unit in accordance with the operation mode set by the mode setting section.

Specimen processing apparatus for genetic testing

A homogenizer, for homogenizing a tissue sample collected from a living body, comprising: a main body; and a storage cooler, comprising a container holder for holding a sample container, configured to cool a tissue sample in the sample container held by the container holder, the storage cooler being detachably installed to the main body, wherein the main body has a blender for crushing the tissue sample in the sample container held in the storage cooler is disclosed.

Homogenizer and storage cooler

Sample crushing apparatus

Container for storing dispensing tip

Container for analyzer

The present invention is to present a liquid dispensing apparatus which is capable of preventing contamination by previously aspirated liquid, even when residual liquid in a pipette tip separated from the dispensing apparatus is scattered. The liquid dispensing apparatus includes: sample dispensing armwhich comprises a dispensing nozzlefor aspirating and discharging sample on which a pipette tipis attached; tip separating sectionfor separating the pipette tipfrom the dispensing nozzle; and nozzle wiping sectionfor cleaning a tip of the dispensing nozzle

Liquid aspirating tube, liquid dispensing apparatus and liquid dispensing method

In detecting a nucleic acid by using the nucleic acid amplification method, it is intended to shorten the time required for the measurement so as to systematically and efficiently examine a gene, etc. To achieve this object, use is made of a method of directly amplifying a nucleic acid by treating a collected biological sample wherein a means of inhibiting the degradation activity of the nucleic acid is introduced during or after the step of homogenizing the biological sample and thus the nucleic acid is directly amplified without isolating/purifying the nucleic acid component from the biological sample. In this method, the means of inhibiting the degradation activity of the nucleic acid is introduced at an acidic pH value (more specifically, from pH 2.5 to pH 5) with the use of a salt interacting with a substance inhibiting the nucleic acid amplification reaction and/or the nucleic acid component so as to directly amplify the nucleic acid without isolating/purifying the nucleic acid component.

Method and system for detection of nucleic acids

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Kobe, Japan

Keiichiro Shohmi