Patent ID: 8610032

Claim:
A micro-optical-electro-mechanical system apparatus for heating a sample, comprising: a glass or polymer microarray slide having a microarray surface; a multiplicity of individual nucleic acid probes attached to said microarray surface; a multiplicity of spots of the sample connected to said microarray surface by said nucleic acid probes attached to said microarray surface on said glass or polymer microarray slide, said multiplicity of spots of the sample including a specific individual spot of the sample; a light source that produces light rays; and a delivery system that delivers said light rays; wherein in a first instance said delivery system that delivers said light rays is adapted to direct said light rays onto said multiplicity of spots of the sample connected to said microarray surface by said nucleic acid probes attached to said microarray surface on said glass or polymer microarray slide thereby heating said multiplicity of spots of the sample enabling chemical reactions in the multiplicity of spots of the sample on said glass or polymer surface, and wherein in a second instance said delivery system that delivers said light rays is adapted to direct said light rays onto said specific individual spot of the sample on said glass or polymer microarray slide for heating said specific individual spot of the sample enabling chemical reactions in said specific individual spot of the sample.