A detection cassette for detecting a sample is provided. The sample includes a first component and a second component. The detection cassette includes a sample injection hole, first and second separation tanks communicated with the sample injection hole, and first and second detection tanks communicated with the first and second separation tanks. A part of the sample enters the first separation tank from the sample injection hole and separated into the first component and the second component in the first separation tank. Another part of the sample enters the second separation tank from the sample injection hole and separated into the first component and the second component in the second separation tank. The first component separated in the first separation tank flows to the first detection tank and the second component separated in the second separation tank flows to the second detection tank for detections. A detection system is provided.

Provided are methods and apparatuses for controlling a position of a target point on a processing result relative to a focus point of a focusing sensor system for determining properties of the processing result. The method includes the steps of determining an initial focus point of the focusing sensor system, controlling rotation of the cartridge and disc, checking whether the initial focus point of the focusing sensor system corresponds to the target point on the processing result, comparing (x, y) target positions in captured images with the initial focus point of the focusing sensor system, adjusting rotation of the cartridge and disc such that the focus point of the focusing sensor system corresponds to the target point on the processing result, and detecting and examining signals received from the focusing sensor system for determining properties of the processing result.

Microfluidic devices that are configured to use centrifugal forces to bias particles into one or more capture regions based on their individual sizes are described.

A lab-on-chip type system, capable of identifying antibiotic sensitivity at the point of care of patients, especially in rural areas, clinics, hospitals that do not have care 24/7, hospitals with low level of equipment, among others, from the extraction of a sample, comprising a micro device or medical base device and a dispenser, wherein said micro device comprises a plurality of microwells, arranged in a circular fashion on one of the faces of the micro device, and wherein the micro-dispenser comprises a central plunger for taking and supplying the sample, a chamber for storage and distribution of the sample and a plurality of microdispensers arranged in a circular manner through which the sample is introduced into the microwells of the micro device.

The invention relates to a cartridge for an analysis method which is rotation-based and utilizes one-sided heat input. The cartridge has a planar main body in which a microfluidic channel-and-chamber structure is formed, with channels interconnecting multiple process chambers, a number of positioning and/or fastening elements, formed in the main body, for positioning and/or fastening the main body on/to a support plate of an analyzer for carrying out the analysis method, and a cover body which is fastened to the main body and which is one-sidedly arranged on a top side of the main body that faces away from a heat input side and which covers at least a chamber.

Disclosed herein is a microfluidic device comprising, at least one sample inlet for receiving biological cells in a biological fluid sample; at least one sheath flow inlet for receiving a sheath fluid; at least one curvilinear channel configured to provide the biological fluid sample substantially in an outer flow and the sheath fluid in substantially an inner separated flow; a plurality of cell traps at the periphery of the curvilinear channel, each trap configured to admit a single cell having a targeted size range from the outer flow.

The current invention concerns a sample vial for receiving a liquid cell sample, to be used in conjunction with a digital holographic microscope (DHM), said sample vial comprises at least two compartments in fluid connection with one another, said compartments comprising at least one pair of screening surfaces, said screening surfaces are essentially flat; and characterized in that the distance between the pair of screening surfaces of the second compartment is smaller than the distance between the pair of screening surfaces of the first compartment. In a second and third aspect, the current invention pertains to a method and system for analyzing a liquid cell sample by DHM, employing the sample vial of the current invention.

A method for multiplying DNA includes using a rotation device to rotate a sample carrier about an axis of rotation. The sample carrier has at least one cavity in which a sample liquid containing DNA is received. The cavity is heated to a high temperature value only on a heat input side lying in a rotation plane by using a heating device. As a result of the heating, a convection current is created in the sample liquid in the cavity, the convection current having substantial current components directed perpendicularly to the rotation plane. A circulation time of a liquid particle along a current path of the convection current is predetermined by the speed of the rotation. A rotation device for multiplying DNA and a system for multiplying DNA, are also provided.

A testing module is provided. The testing module includes a carrier, a block member, and a sampling assembly. A flow path connects a storage chamber to a mixing chamber to guide the flow of a fluid. The block member is formed in the flow path to block the fluid from flowing from the storage chamber to the mixing chamber before the connection of the sampling assembly. When the sampling assembly which contains a test sample is connected to the carrier, the fluid mixes with the test sample and flows to the mixing chamber.

A method for operating an analysis device for carrying out an analysis process, more particularly by using a polymerase chain reaction, includes providing a cartridge having a microfluidic channel-and-chamber structure. At least one film bag containing a process liquid is disposed in a stick-pack chamber of the cartridge. In an opening step the stick-pack chamber or stick-pack chambers are heated to a temperature of 80 to 130 degrees Celsius, and in the opening step the cartridge rotates at a rotational speed of 20 to 80 Hz. A cartridge and an analyzer are also provided.