Abstract: A dispensing device includes a housing having at least one pressure chamber, having a supply opening for the supply of liquid into the pressure chamber and having a multiplicity of conduits between the pressure chamber and an external side of the housing, there being situated in each of the conduits a tube, the first end of which protrudes into the pressure chamber and the second end of which protrudes out of the housing on the external side.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automated system and a method for determining the effect of active ingredients on organisms such as insects, Acariformes and nematodes in an assay plate containing wells with the aid of image-acquisition and image-analysis technology. The invention allows the characterization of the population of the organisms at multiple time points.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for establishing the effect of active ingredients on nematodes and other organisms in aqueous tests, comprising a holder (40) for receiving a cell culture plate (50) with wells (57), in which the nematodes with the active ingredients can be filled, wherein the cell culture plate (50) has a bottom side (51), a top side (52) and a plurality of side faces, which extend between the bottom side (51) and top side (52), a camera (20) that serves to record images of preferably the bottom side (51) of the cell culture plate (50), and an illumination device (30) for illuminating the cell culture plate (50), wherein the illumination device (30) comprises a plurality of light sources.

Abstract: A method and a system for rapid kinetic fluorescence measurement in high-throughput screening with high time-resolution includes providing a microtiter plate having a transparent base and multiple assay wells, a dispensing system arranged above the microtiter plate for simultaneously adding liquid into multiple assay wells, an illumination system beneath the microtiter plate for illuminating the multiple assay wells simultaneously through the transparent base, a detection system for detecting electromagnetic radiation from the multiple assay wells simultaneously through the transparent base, adding 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) and a method for determining the action of active ingredients on nematodes and other organisms in aqueous tests.

Abstract: A method and a system for rapid kinetic fluorescence measurement in high-throughput screening with high time-resolution includes providing a microtiter plate having a transparent base and multiple assay wells, a dispensing system arranged above the microtiter plate for simultaneously adding liquid into multiple assay wells, an illumination system beneath the microtiter plate for illuminating the multiple assay wells simultaneously through the transparent base, a detection system for detecting electromagnetic radiation from the multiple assay wells simultaneously through the transparent base, adding 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing device comprising a housing having at least one pressure chamber, having a supply opening for the supply of liquid into the pressure chamber and having a multiplicity of conduits between the pressure chamber and an external side of the housing, there being situated in each of the conduits a tube, the first end of which protrudes into the pressure chamber and the second end of which protrudes out of the housing on the external side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) and a method for determining the action of active ingredients on nematodes and other organisms in aqueous tests.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) and a method for determining the action of active ingredients on nematodes and other organisms in aqueous tests.

Abstract: Methods, kits and compositions of matter are provided which allow amplification of nucleic acid or interest or DNA of interest, comprising the steps of isolating template nucleic acid or DNA from a biological sample using an alkaline extraction solution and directly adding the extract to a reaction mixture, under conditions to amplify the nucleic acids, wherein the isolated template nucleic acid or DNA in the alkaline extraction solution is not diluted or not neutralized prior to the addition to the reaction mixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) and a method for determining the action of active ingredients on nematodes and other organisms in aqueous tests.

Abstract: Methods, kits and compositions of matter are provided which allow amplification of nucleic acid or interest or DNA of interest, comprising the steps of isolating template nucleic acid or DNA from a biological sample using an alkaline extraction solution and directly adding the extract to a reaction mixture, under conditions to amplify the nucleic acids, wherein the isolated template nucleic acid or DNA in the alkaline extraction solution is not diluted or not neutralized prior to the addition to the reaction mixture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for automatically performing chemical, biochemical and biological analyses using the apparatus. The apparatus comprises: a plurality of subsystems for each performing different operations on microtiter plates; a transporting subsystem for automated movement of microtiter plates in three directions X, Y and Z in order to transport plates from one subsystem to another subsystem within the apparatus; a liquid handler comprising at least two liquid handling probes, wherein said liquid handler is integrated in the transporting subsystem; an insertion/removal subsystem for inserting, removing and storing microtiter plates and equipment for sampling and dilution operations, wherein said insertion/removal subsystem is mechanically operated, without the need for electrical components implemented in that subsystem.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for automatically performing chemical, biochemical and biological analyses.

Abstract: A turbulence generator useful for mixing or as a heat exchanger, comprising a housing having an interior surface defined by an interior wall or walls, and an exterior surface, with at least two turbulence elements, each having at least one non-structured section (3) and at least one structured section (4), comprised of a plurality of alternating ribs (8) and gaps (9), removably inserted therein.

Abstract: High performance thermal control duct for heat exchangers, comprising two sheets, each of which have surface depressions, sandwiched together on both sides of a holed sheet.

Abstract: A tube reactor based on a laminate, at least comprising at least three structured layers and a covering layer on the top and on the underside of the laminate, in which each layer has openings which are arranged in adjacent longitudinal rows and are elongated transverse to the longitudinal rows, in which the openings of a layer intersect at least three openings of an adjacent layer and the sequence of intersecting openings forms a channel in the longitudinal direction or in the transverse direction of the layers.