Medical apparatus, devices, equipment and instruments, namely, imaging devices comprising fluorimeters used to record fluorescence signals and produce data, thermal control elements for heating and cooling, scanners, microtiter plate readers, stations for placement of microtiter plates, lenses, mirrors, computers, instrument software, analytical software, and cases to hold the foregoing, all for detecting, identifying, classifying, analyzing, evaluating, monitoring, preparing, testing, mixing, heating and cooling nucleic acid, cells, genes and chemical, biochemical, biological, genetic, pathological and toxic materials and samples for medical, clinical and diagnostic purposes; medical materials, articles, apparatus and disposable items, namely, thermal control elements for heating and cooling, containers specially adapted for medical use to hold samples for testing purposes, tubes specially adapted for medical use for testing purposes, microtiter plates, plastic and metal receiver cartridges all for medical, surgical, veterinary, clinical and diagnostic use; Nucleic acid amplifiers for medical use