Gyros Patent Ab

Mats Inganäs

Gunnar Kylberg

Susanna Lindman

Gunnar Thorsén

Pirjo Lehtonen

Johan Engström

Karolina Österlund

Anna Halje

A method of quantitatively determining an analyte in a fluid sample by an immunoassay comprises binding of the analyte to a ligand capable of specifically binding to the analyte, wherein at least part of the analyte is present as an analyte complex is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: a) subjecting the sample to a first acidic pH to at least substantially dissociate any analyte complex present and provide substantially all analyte in free form, b) raising the first acidic pH to a second acidic pH where re-formation of complexes is prevented but where binding of analyte to the ligand is permitted, and c) determining the binding of analyte to the ligand to quantitatively determine the analyte in the sample.

Method and kit for analyte determination at acidic conditions

A microfluidic device that comprises a microchannel structure in which there are one, two or more flow paths () all of which comprises a porous bed I () that is common for all of the flow paths and exposes an immobilized reactant R that is capable of interacting with a solute S that passes through the bed. The characteristics are that at least one of the flow paths comprises/comprise a second porous bed II () that is placed upstream of porous bed I () and is dummy with respect to interaction with solute S but capable of interacting with a substance DS that is present in a liquid aliquot together with solute S and is capable of disturbing the result of the interaction between solute S and said immobilized reactant R. There is also disclosed a method utilizing the device and variant of the device in which the immobilized R is replaced with a generic affinity ligand Land/or porous bed II exposes a generic ligand Lthat may be different from L.

Flow paths comprising one or two porous beds

The present invention relates to a method, a system, a neural network and a computer program product for determining the quality of an analytical process, preferably the confidence value. The analytical process is performed in a microchannel structure of a microfluidic device, from which data information of the analytic process is acquired by scanning at least one search area of the microchannel structure for signal data. The search area comprises the result of the analytical process and the acquired data information is stored as an image, one image for each scanned search area.

Confidence determination

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