Biological sample treatment apparatus
AssigneeLeica Biosystems Melbourne Pty Ltd
InventorsMark Brian Dockrill, Samuel Gason
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Abstract
An apparatus for treating biological samples disposed on substrates, including: an input buffer for receiving one or more substrate holders each being adapted to support a plurality of the substrates; a treatment zone including a plurality of treatment stations each being adapted to receive one of the substrates; a reagent dispenser configured by a controller to dispense reagents to the substrates at the treatment stations; a substrate transport device configured by the controller to transport individual substrates between the substrate holders in the input buffer and the treatment stations.
Claims11
An apparatus for treating biological samples disposed on substrates, including:
- an input buffer for receiving one or more substrate holders each being adapted to support a plurality of the substrates;
- a treatment zone including a plurality of treatment stations each being adapted to receive one of the substrates;
- a reagent dispenser configured by a controller to dispense reagents to the substrates at the treatment stations;
- a substrate transport device configured by the controller to transport individual substrates between the substrate holders in the input buffer and the treatment stations, wherein the controller is configured to cause the substrate transport device to group individual substrates within the treatment zone to treat the biological samples disposed on substrates;
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- wherein the controller is configured to cause the substrate transport device to group individual substrates to which a common reagent is to be applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.