MP3 file of 30-minute teleconference on tissue microarrays provides information on products and techniques most commonly employed by scientists
The Science Advisory Board hosted a live teleconference that joined an in-house team of analysts and a member specialising in the field of tissue microarrays (TMAs).
The 30-minute teleconference also featured a brief online presentation of the results from a Science Advisory Board-sponsored study.
An MP3 of the discussion, along with a PowerPoint presentation, can be accessed through the Science Advisory Board's webpage.
By listening to this Snapshots Live recording, you can learn more about the products and techniques most commonly employed by scientists conducting TMA research and the product attributes and suppliers with which they are most satisfied.
Almost two-thirds of the participants in the study use TMAs to perform basic research on specific genes or proteins, with proteins being detected 65% of the time, followed by DNA and RNA being detected 51% and 46% of the time, respectively.
TMAs allow hundreds of tissue specimens to be examined on a single microscope slide, greatly streamlining the processes of drug discovery and clinical diagnosis.
In contrast to traditional tissue analysis techniques, which use at least one slide for every tissue from each patient or test subject, TMAs are created with specialised instrumentation that can remove small, circular punches from tissue specimens and array up to 1000 different samples on the same slide.
Despite its powerful throughput capabilities, only 22% of the surveyed researchers utilise TMA for the high-throughput analysis of tissue samples.
54% of the study participants work with frozen tissue, with fixed samples being more prevalent than unfixed samples.
