APPARATUS FOR SEALING SLIDE BOTTOM

摘要

During automated processing of microscope slides, a microscope slide containing a sample on one side can be placed on a platform with a sample side of the slide facing upwardly. Previously, a fluid employed in slide processing could spill over the edges of a slide and work its way under the slide, contaminating a backside of the slide. Disclosed systems overcome such difficulties by sealing a region of the slide that engages a platform. Disclosed systems can comprise a platform configured to receive a microscope slide and a seal circumscribing the platform. When the bottom surface of the microscope slide contacts the seal, a pressure reducer can be actuated and fluidicly coupled to a volume bounded, in part, by the platform and the bottom surface of the microscope slide.