A method may include etching a number of holes into a carrier wafer layer to form a plurality of filters in the carrier wafer layer, patterning a chamber layer over a first side of the carrier wafer layer to form chambers above each filter formed in the carrier wafer layer, forming a layer over the chamber layer, grinding a second side of the carrier wafer layer to expose the number of holes etched into the carrier wafer layer, and bonding a molded substrate to the carrier wafer layer opposite the chamber layer.

A fluid preparation device can include a fluid-receiving vessel and a fluid loader with multiple fluid chambers including a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber. The multiple fluid chambers can partially be defined by actuator seals that are positioned on an actuator. The actuator can be moveable among a plurality of positions and the actuator seals can be positioned on the actuator to fluidically separate the first fluid chamber from the second fluid chamber when the actuator is in a closed position from the plurality of positions, allow fluidic communication between the second fluid chamber and the fluid-receiving vessel when the actuator is in a first open position from the plurality of positions, and allow fluidic communication between the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber when the actuator is in a second open position from the plurality of positions.

A biological component separator can include a vertically layered fluid column with a plurality of fluids positioned in fluid layers and a density-differential interface along which two fluids from the plurality of fluids are positioned. The biological component separator can also include a magnetic field generator positioned about the vertically layered fluid column and having multiple magnetic field profiles appliable across the vertically layered fluid column. The multiple magnetic field profiles can include a particle aggregating profile to concentrate magnetizing particles when present in the vertically layered fluid column and a particle sweeping profile to re-suspend and sweep the magnetizing particles when present across the vertically layered fluid column.

A vertically layered fluid column can include a plurality of fluids positioned in fluid layers, a density-differential interface along which two fluids from the plurality of fluids are positioned, and a capillary force-supported interface along which two fluids from the plurality of the fluids are positioned.

Methods and systems disclosed herein provide systems and methods for maintaining sterile conditions inside of a biological-fluid container during an entire process of delivery, incubation, centrifugation, and extraction of fluid. The methods and systems also provide systems and methods for localized extraction of a portion of a biological fluid.

A solid-core ring-magnet having one or more cavities is provided. The magnet can have an overall cylindrical shape or a rectangular-prism shape. In either case, a portion of cavity walls of the magnet are ring shaped, causing the magnetic field lines to emanate from the magnet in the shape of a ring. The diameter of the ring shaped cavities can be constant throughout, constant through a portion of the cavity, variant throughout, or variant through a portion of the cavity. The cavities open to the end of the magnet, and terminate toward the core of the magnet. Also provided are systems and kits having solid-core ring-magnets. Methods of purifying a macromolecule using the solid-core ring-magnets are also provided.

Methods and devices for isolating microbial cells from a sample, extracting eukaryotic DNA from a sample, and identifying the microbial species in the sample are disclosed herein.

A single junction sorter for a microfluidic particle sorter, the single-junction sorter comprising: an input channel, configured to receive a fluid containing particles; an output sort channel and an output waste channel, each connected to the input channel for receiving the fluid therefrom; a bubble generator, operable to selectively displace the fluid around a particle to be sorted and thereby to create a transient flow of the fluid in the input channel; and a vortex element, configured to cause a vortex in the transient flow in order to direct the particle to be sorted into the output sort channel.

Disclosed herein is a preprocessing apparatus that makes it possible to highly efficiently analyze specimens held by solid media, such as dried blood spots to be used for newborn mass screening or the like. The preprocessing apparatus includes: a preprocessing container setting part in which a preprocessing container containing a solid sample including a specimen to be analyzed and a solid medium holding the specimen is to be set; a carrying mechanism that carries the preprocessing container set in the preprocessing container setting part; and a preprocessing part that has a port for setting the preprocessing container carried by the carrying mechanism and that is configured to perform preprocessing including extraction processing for extracting the specimen from the solid sample contained in the preprocessing container set in the port.

A system for preparing a calibrated volume of blood plasma that includes a plurality of parts: a device for preparing the calibrated volume of blood plasma, which is in the form of a single card; a pneumatic-type actuating system SP; a treatment and command unit UC configured such as to execute a command sequence of different pneumatic command points of the pneumatic actuation system with a view to obtaining, from a taken blood sample, the calibrated volume of blood plasma. The device includes three distinct modules: a fluidic connection module M1 onto which a blood sampling device may be connected; a module M2 for separation of the blood plasma contained in the blood sample; a module M3 for obtaining at least one calibrated volume of blood plasma, after separation.