January 28, 2013
by Dale Yuzuki
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FFPE (Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded) tissues are standard preparations in the clinical world. It has been estimated that there are millions of FFPE samples stored in countless hospital laboratories and research pathology groups, all part of a standard operating procedure among … Continue reading
October 8, 2012
by Dale Yuzuki
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Recently I was asked about how important readlengths are, in the context of where MiSeq and Ion Torrent PGM currently stand in the marketplace. As the 454 advertisement used to say until recently, ‘Length Matters’. Given a number of recent … Continue reading
August 8, 2012
by Dale Yuzuki
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Way back in 1997 a company launched one of the first commercial expression microarrays. The company was Affymetrix, the technology was micro-lithography, and the excitement around this new technology was palpable in the days before even the Human Genome Project … Continue reading
July 23, 2012
by Dale Yuzuki
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NanoString is a startup company that has commercialized a product called the nCounter™ system. It is able to take an RNA sample and look at the expression level of up to 800 genes per sample, and recent news indicates that … Continue reading