Abstract: A small object identifying device and its identifying method according to which a large number of small objects can be identified. In one embodiment, the device includes a dispersion region section which disperses a large quantity of several kinds of small objects which are labeled by a combination of the presence/absence or measure of label elements of several kinds. A measuring device distributes and associates kinds of said label elements to two or more measurement points and measures the presence/absence or the measure of said label elements of the kinds which have been associated with respective measurement points. An identifying section associates the measurement results measured at each measurement point to thereby identify said small objects.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic particle holding carrier enabling automatization of treatment of a biological substance such as a protein by improving dispersibility of nano-size magnetic particles and suppressing nonspecific adsorption onto the wall of a container such as a pipette tip without damaging the properties of the nano-size magnetic particles such as a large solid-phase area and ability to arbitrarily design a functional protein, and provide a method for preparing the same. The magnetic particle holding carrier is formed of a micro-size nonmagnetic carrier and a plurality of nano-size magnetic particles bound to the carrier.

Abstract: A small object identifying device and its identifying method according to which a large number of small objects can be identified. In one embodiment, the device includes a dispersion region section which disperses a large quantity of several kinds of small objects which are labeled by a combination of the presence/absence or measure of label elements of several kinds. A measuring device distributes and associates kinds of said label elements to two or more measurement points and measures the presence/absence or the measure of said label elements of the kinds which have been associated with respective measurement points. An identifying section associates the measurement results measured at each measurement point to thereby identify said small objects.

Abstract: A small object identifying device and its identifying method according to which a large number of small objects can be identified. In one embodiment, the device includes a dispersion region section which disperses a large quantity of several kinds of small objects which are labeled by a combination of the presence/absence or measure of label elements of several kinds. A measuring device distributes and associates kinds of said label elements to two or more measurement points and measures the presence/absence or the measure of said label elements of the kinds which have been associated with respective measurement points. An identifying section associates the measurement results measured at each measurement point to thereby identify said small objects.

Abstract: A small object identifying device and its identifying method according to which a large number of small objects can be identified. In one embodiment, the device includes a dispersion region section which disperses a large quantity of several kinds of small objects which are labeled by a combination of the presence/absence or measure of label elements of several kinds. A measuring device distributes and associates kinds of said label elements to two or more measurement points and measures the presence/absence or the measure of said label elements of the kinds which have been associated with respective measurement points. An identifying section associates the measurement results measured at each measurement point to thereby identify said small objects.

Abstract: The invention aims to provide an optical information reader which can identify precisely, reliably, and with high sensitivity, even when the quantity or the wavelength of light from a measuring object from which optical information is to be read, extends over a wide range.

Abstract: A small object identifying device and its identifying method according to which a large number of small objects can be identified. In one embodiment, the device includes a dispersion region section which disperses a large quantity of several kinds of small objects which are labeled by a combination of the presence/absence or measure of label elements of several kinds. A measuring device distributes and associates kinds of said label elements to two or more measurement points and measures the presence/absence or the measure of said label elements of the kinds which have been associated with respective measurement points. An identifying section associates the measurement results measured at each measurement point to thereby identify said small objects.

Abstract: An object is to provide a dispenser operation verification apparatus and verification method that enables operation with high reliability and high accuracy.

Abstract: An object is to provide a dispenser operation verification apparatus and verification method that enables operation with high reliability and high accuracy.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a reaction vessel which makes it possible to control the temperature of the reaction solution accommodated in the reaction chamber with a quick response, without any need for centrifuging when the reaction solution is accommodated in the reaction chamber, and which also makes it possible to cause the reaction to proceed even when the amount of reaction solution accommodated in the reaction chamber is extremely small. The present invention provides a reaction vessel comprising a reaction vessel main body which has a reaction chamber that has an opening part in the upper end and that can accommodate a reaction solution, and a cover member which can seal the opening part of the abovementioned reaction chamber, wherein the abovementioned cover member has a pressing part that can press the reaction solution accommodated in the abovementioned reaction chamber.

Abstract: Carriers hold remote-acting bodies which can be manipulated by a remote force, and also hold a micro-substance which is a target substance of an assay. The remote-acting bodies are manipulated in order to control the positions of the micro-substances, so as to execute assays for various target substances efficiently, at low cost, easily, and reliably. Various aspects of interest include the carriers which hold the micro-substances, a system suspending the carriers, an apparatus for manipulating the carriers, and a method of controlling the position of the carriers.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automatic separator/extractor and a method of controlling same, with the object, particularly in all manner of fields such as medical science, agricultural science, scientific fields, or pharmaceuticals, of being able to achieve at high speed and accuracy, extraction or separation of precipitate or supernatant at a high quality, accuracy and reliability, above that which can be achieved by manual means.

Abstract: In order to achieve an object of providing a nucleic acid library and a protein library capable of supplying plural species of proteins correlated with the nucleic acid coding therefor at once, and analyzing immediately after the supply the plural species of protein in parallel, the present invention provides a nucleic acid library comprising not less than two species of library units present in a state in which they are separated from one another, wherein each library unit comprises a nucleic acid that can express not less than one species of protein in an in vitro transcription/translation system or an in vitro translation system, and a first protein trapper that is set contiguously to the nucleic acid, each library unit is set on the surface of a solid support, and the nucleic acid contained in each library unit is immobilized on the surface of the solid support where each library unit is set, and a protein library obtainable by subjecting at once not less than two species of library units possessed by the

Abstract: A pipetting arrangement comprising a carrier (10) to which first ends of a plurality of mutually parallel nozzles (20) are connected with the aid of respective screw joints (21, 22), wherein the nozzles are spaced only a slight distance apart, wherein second ends (24) of said nozzles (20) are designed to carry a readily replaced pipetting tip (30), and wherein the pipetting arrangement also includes means (7, 8, 17, 18, 12) for establishing at said second end of a respective nozzle (20) a selective pressure for sucking fluid into and dispensing fluid from said tips. The nozzles are provided at their respective second ends (24) with a driving formation (28, 28?) to which there can be applied a turning tool for respectively tightening and loosening the screw joint (21, 22).

Abstract: An object in relation to a suspension for determining the sequence of genetic materials, a method of determining the sequence of genetic materials using such a suspension, and a method for high-speed scoring SNPs using such a suspension, is to ensure high reliability, and substantially increase reaction efficiency, to thereby shorten the time until reaching an equilibrium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a concentration device using magnetic particles and a method therefor aimed at performing concentration of a large volume of liquid efficiently and reliably with a simple structure and on a small device scale. The construction involves having: a liquid suction passage in which liquid can pass through only in a suction direction; a liquid discharge passage in which liquid can pass through only in a discharge direction; a magnetic force device which can exert a magnetic field from outside of the liquid passage on at least one liquid passage thereof or remove the magnetic field, and which can separate magnetic particles having directly or indirectly captured a target substance suspended in the liquid by having the magnetic particles adhere to the inner wall of the liquid passage; a storage section communicated with each liquid passage, for storing the sucked liquid; and a pressure adjustment device for sucking and discharging the liquid by adjusting the pressure in the storage section.

Abstract: An object is to provide a reaction vessel in which, after a reaction has been conducted in the state with a cover member mounted on a reaction vessel main body, the reaction product contained in the reaction solution within the reaction vessel can be acquired without removing the cover member from the reaction vessel main body, and in order to achieve this object, the reaction vessel of the present invention is characterized in that: a nozzle tip fitting space, in which a nozzle tip mounted on a nozzle that can take in and discharge liquid can be fitted, is formed in the cover member; a nozzle tip fitting hole leading to the nozzle tip space is formed such that the nozzle tip can be fitted in the nozzle tip fitting space in the state with the cover member mounted on the reaction vessel main body; and in the state with the cover member mounted on the reaction vessel main body, a through-hole, which causes the exterior of the reaction vessel to communicate with the reaction solution holding space and the nozzle

Abstract: An object is to provide a carrier housing/processing apparatus and a method wherein complicated reaction processes are simplified, and the processes can be easily performed with a small scale apparatus structure. The construction comprises; one or a plurality of carriers fixed or able to be fixed with chemical substances such as ligands; a carrier housing section which is provided with a fluid inlet/outlet and which accommodates the carrier; a drawing/discharging section which draws and discharge a fluid through the inlet/outlet with respect to the carrier housing section; and a transferring section which transfers the inlet/outlet relatively with respect to containers provided outside.

Abstract: In order to attain an object to provide a reaction vessel, reaction apparatus, and method with which a reaction can be automated without requiring centrifugation when a reaction solution is held in a reaction chamber, the temperature of the reaction solution held in the reaction chamber can be rapidly controlled, the reaction can proceed even when just a tiny amount of reaction solution is held in the reaction chamber, and the reaction occurring in the reaction chamber can be monitored in real time, temperature control of a reaction solution 4a held in a tightly closed space S1a is performed through a bottom plate 22a constituting a reaction vessel main body 2a and a pressing part 32a constituting a cover member 3a, and the irradiation of the reaction solution 4a with excitation light and the detection of fluorescent light emitted from the reaction solution 4a are performed through a first side plate 23a constituting the reaction vessel main body 2a.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for an integrated process of magnetic particles and a method of controlling the same, for executing a process for magnetic particles incorporated in a fluid in an integrated state. The present invention aims to provide an apparatus for an integrated process of magnetic particles and a method of controlling the same, that can promptly and efficiently process all together in high precision, with the process of magnetic particles integrated.