A sample support has an absorbent membrane layer which is based on a nonwoven polyolefin and which has at least one take-up region with dried blood constituents. It moreover has a film layer based on a plastic, where the film layer has received antistatic pretreatment. The membrane layer and the film layer have been connected to one another mechanically in one subregion of the sample support. but the layers have moreover not been connected to one another mechanically in the take-up region. It is preferable that, when the sample support is placed onto a uniformly level surface the membrane layer covers the film layer at least in the take-up region.

A device for collecting, transferring, and storing samples of a biological and/or chemical material, wherein the device comprises: a support body, developing along a main longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end opposite to each other and connected by an intermediate portion elongate in the main longitudinal direction, a collection portion engaging the first end and configured to collect a quantity of a sample of a biological and/or chemical material, the collection portion being defined at least by a first coating layer realized on the first end and made from an elastically deformable material and by a second coating layer consisting of a layer of flocked fibers, the second coating layer being realized through a fiber flocking process on the first coating layer and being configured to absorb a quantity of liquid including at least one sample of a biological and/or chemical material.

A sample tracking card for attachment to a container containing a biological sample that has been obtained for testing is described. The card comprises an aperture for receiving an end of a sample collection container and a tab for engaging with another end of the sample collection container to attach the container to the card. The card allows the result of testing on the sample to be reliably matched with the subject without revealing the subject's identity on the container. Kits comprising the card and the container are also described.

Devices and systems are provided herein relating to a novel and rapid assay for tissue staining. Methods for using the devices and systems for analyzing tissue samples are also disclosed.

The invention relates to a cartridge housing for forming a cartridge capable of measuring an analyte or property of a liquid sample. The housing including a top portion having a first substantially rigid zone and a substantially flexible zone, a bottom portion separate from the top portion including a second substantially rigid zone, and at least one sensor recess containing a sensor. The top portion and the bottom portion are bonded to form the cartridge having a conduit over at least a portion of the sensor. The invention also relates to methods for forming such cartridges and to various features of such cartridges.

A system for diagnostic testing may include a meter for performing a diagnostic test on a sample applied to a test media, the meter having a housing and an interface for receiving a signal representing coding information, and a container configured to contain test media compatible with the meter, the container having a coding element associated therewith. Additionally, the system may provide a mechanism for removing the meter from an interconnected test container and reattaching it to a new container using on-container coding methods that can recalibrate the meter for the new container of test strips.

Disclosed are devices, kits, compositions, and methods for collecting, transporting, and detecting toxicants, pathogens, and biomarkers in a biological sample. The devices, kits, compositions and methods may be utilized to collect and transport dried blood samples from a skin prick and detect toxicants, pathogens, and biomarkers in the dried blood samples.

Multi-well collapsible basket arrays and methods for their use with high throughput culture and histology analysis of spheroids and organoids. Such a collapsible basket array includes a collapsible cellular array structure having multiple cells and connectors that interconnect adjacent pairs of the cells to cause the collapsible cellular array structure to collapse from an expanded configuration to a collapsed configuration in which the connectors are partially wrapped around perimeters or circumferences of the cells, whereby the collapsible cellular array structure is expandable to acquire an expanded configuration capable of individually aligning the cells thereof with wells of a well plate. The collapsible basket array further includes inserts individually mountable to the cells of the collapsible cellular array structure, with each insert including a permeable basket with pores sized to retain spheroids or organoids within the basket.

The invention refers to a cantilever sensor comprising: a silicon layer having at least two surfaces and at least two end regions, wherein at least one surface is coated with a coating comprising Au, and one end region is anchored to a support, thereby forming a hinge region between the silicon layer and the support, wherein the at least one Au-coated surface is further coated with a self-assembled monolayer network of probe molecules that covers at least 30% of the Au-coated layer surface and is arranged along the longitudinal length of the cantilever in a continuous connectivity between the probe molecules of the network and between the network and the hinge region of the cantilever. The continuous connectivity is obtained when the distance between a self-assembled monolayer network of probe molecules and a hinge region of the cantilever is equal or less than 50 m and when the distance between the plurality of probe molecules is equal or less than 50 m.

A lateral flow testing device (1) comprises a main body (3) adapted to support an element (5) for collecting a sample (100), said sample collection element (5) being supported at a distal end (1d) of the testing device (1) and being in fluid communication with one or more testing components (7), the testing components comprising an analyte detection zone for detecting one or more analytes present in said sample. The testing components produce visual information (200) related to said sample (100), thereby informing the user of the outcome of a test. The device incorporates a handle (9) reconfigurable with respect to said main body (3) such that in one or more first handle configurations (11) the handle (9) hinders sight of the visual information (200), and in one or more second handle configurations (13) the handle (9) facilitates the collection of said sample (100) by increasing a distance between a proximal end (1p) of the testing device (1) and the sample collection element (5). The testing device (1) is adapted such that the handle (9) is reconfigurable from at least one of said second handle configurations (13) to at least one of said first handle configurations (11) to hinder sight of the visual information (200) after that said testing has been carried out, therefore improving the privacy of the test.