Abstract: A rearview assembly for a vehicle is provided that includes: a housing; a rearview element configured to display images of a scene to the rear of the vehicle, the rearview element disposed in the housing; a circuit board mounted in the housing behind the rearview element, the circuit board having a substantially planar surface and a peripheral edge; and a capacitive touch zone on a surface of the housing, the capacitive touch zone comprising a conductive component mounted to the circuit board, wherein the conductive component comprises a first portion mounted to the planar surface of the circuit board and a second portion extending beyond the peripheral edge of the circuit board at an angle to the planar surface.

Abstract: A rearview assembly for a vehicle is provided that includes: a housing; a rearview element configured to display images of a scene to the rear of the vehicle, the rearview element disposed in the housing; a circuit board mounted in the housing behind the rearview element, the circuit board having a substantially planar surface and a peripheral edge; and a capacitive touch zone on a surface of the housing, the capacitive touch zone comprising a conductive component mounted to the circuit board, wherein the conductive component comprises a first portion mounted to the planar surface of the circuit board and a second portion extending beyond the peripheral edge of the circuit board at an angle to the planar surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for purifying at least one target substance that is to be identified and is present or is formed in a cell culture medium when cells are cultivated. In said method, magnetic particles, i.e. beads, to the functionalized surface of which the target substance selectively attaches, are added to the cell culture medium, and the particles to which the target substance is attached are selected out of the cell culture medium by applying a magnetic field.

Abstract: The invention concerns antibodies to special forms of enzymatically non-active precursors of prostate specific antigen (PSA), their production, their use in immunoassays for determination of [−5, −6, −7] proPSA and the use of measured values from these assays for improved diagnostics in the field of prostatic carcinoma.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the purification of a target substance from a biological sample by immobilizing the target substance on a solid phase by means of a high affinity binding pair and subsequently eluting it by adding a partner of the binding pair in a free form. In addition reagent kits for carrying out the method are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention concerns an immunological process for the determination of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), particularly for the determination of free PSA, the total concentration of PSA and the concentration of PSA-serpin complexes by incubation of the sample with at least one antibody specifically binding to free PSA but not to complex PSA. The process is characterized in that especially before the determination of the total PSA concentration a nucleophile containing amine is added to the sample. Furthermore, the invention concerns the use of amine-containing nucleophiles for the production of free PSA as well as a procedure for preparing free PSA from complex PSA by incubation of a sample containing complex PSA with a nucleophile containing amine.