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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2009
Lance G. Laing, Belmont, MA (US);
Timothy F. Smith, Dracut, MA (US);
John Gerstenmeier, Iii, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Gangadhar Jogikalmath, Cambridge, MA (US);
Lance G. Laing, Belmont, MA (US);
Timothy F. Smith, Dracut, MA (US);
John Gerstenmeier, III, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Gangadhar Jogikalmath, Cambridge, MA (US);
SRU Biosystems, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Abstract
A device for simultaneously dispensing a solution containing a sample to a test device and aspirating the sample from the device. In one embodiment the device is hand-held and includes a control mechanism, e.g., button for activating the dispensing and aspiration of the sample. The testing device may take the form of a multi-well plate with a plurality of wells arranged in rows and columns, with the bottom of the wells formed as a photonic crystal biosensor. The device can be configured with dispense and aspirate manifolds and associated dispense and aspirate ports which are positioned in all the wells along a row or column of wells so as to simultaneously aspirate and dispense solution to all the wells in a row or column of the multi-well plate.