Genetix has announced the availability of issue 2 of Microarray News - a newsletter focusing on the latest technical advances and applications developments in microarraying
A new microarrayer hybrid bed option is introduced that is facilitating printing of DNA and protein arrays into 96- or 384-well microplates in application areas including diagnostic screening and clinical sample testing.
The feature demonstrates how arraying into microplates has advantages over slides in terms of ease of automation, higher throughput parallel analysis of samples and savings in terms of cost and time.
New applications advances in reverse transfection for analysis of protein expression, protein trafficking and protein-protein interaction as well as short-interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules in RNA Interference (RNAi) studies using array technology are discussed. The newsletter also details further technological advances including a new protein array platform that enables printing, processing, imaging and analysing of protein arrays and a a three-colour microarray scanner that is enabling detection of GFP, fluorescein and a range of other fluorophores, making it an ideal and versatile system for imaging DNA, protein, cell and tissue arrays.
