Patent ID: 7015045

Claim:
Method of detecting toxins in a tissue sample comprising: (a) providing a housing having a main chamber for receiving the tissue sample, first and second end chambers having areas smaller than an area of the main chamber and communicating with opposite ends of the main chamber, wherein the first chamber comprises a coring tube and wherein the second end chamber comprises an assay chamber for analysis of extracted sample, (b) collecting a tissue sample with the coring tube, (c) coupling a reagent cap comprising reagent with the first end chamber and squeezing the reagent cap to supply the reagent and to position the tissue sample in the main chamber, (d) incubating the reagent and tissue sample in the main chamber to form a solution, (e) supplying the formed solution from the main chamber into the assay chamber, (f) generating and detecting assay signals from the assay chamber, and (g) detecting the toxins in the tissue sample.