However, when devices were placed in a vacuum desiccator to dry, a necessary step to make a ready-to-use POC device in this work, primers in paper-free LAMP zones accumulated on the edge of the LAMP zones, while primers in LAMP zones with paper inside were still uniformly distributed.
A solar simulator equipped with a 150 W xenon ozone-free lamp was employed for the experimental runs.
We have shown results for an instrument-free LAMP assay with a simple qualitative visual readout.
Light source was a Sutter 175W xenon ozone-free lamp through a liquid light guide (Sutter Instruments, Novato, CA), or a 50W mercury lap (Hamamatsu).
The success of this instrument-free LAMP detection using the microfluidic device is significant because it indicates that real samples could be directly used for the on-chip LAMP reaction without any laborious and time-consuming DNA isolation or purification procedures.
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UVB was irradiated using a 450 W ozone free Xenon Lamp and dichroic mirrors (Newport, Oriel Instruments), and neutral filters were used to adjust radiation to 2 J m−2 s−1 at a lamp-to-target distance of 23 cm, with the aid of a UVB detector attached to a photometer (Solar Light company Inc. USA).
A bright-field reflectance images were acquired using an inverted microscope (Olympus BX 51,175 W ozone-free He lamp), equipped with a color digital video camera (Sony Exwave HAD-12 megapixel).
Lack of photo-activation in these experiments was likely due to the weaker light intensity than a brighter, point-focused 405nm laser, and by the use of an ozone-free xenon lamp bulb (PE175BF, Perkin Elmer), not producing light at wavelengths below 340nm.
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