Silicon Microarray technology receives award for application product of the year 2007

Parallel Synthesis Technologies’s Silicon Microarray technology has received the Small Times 2007 Best of Small Tech Award for application product of the year. NanoCon International conference Silicon Microarray technology is a set of micromachined silicon pin tools for printing DNA or protein microarrays. The identically micromachined printing tools, which can produce microarrays containing up to [...]

New Microarray technology replacing PCR and speed up HTS

Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Centre and his researchers along with the help of  NimbleGen Systems the  company recently acquired by Roche Applied Science has developed a new technique that combines gene chip technology with the latest generation of gene sequencing machines to allow fast and accurate sequencing of selected [...]

Affymetrix and Illumina in war path again as fresh patent litigation on microarray patents

Illumina and Affymetrix have been in a patent battle since 2004. In its second wave of patent infringement litigation cas against illumina filed in UK, Germany and US, Affymetrix has targeted technology offered by Solexa, the company acquired by Illumina in January 2007, as well as all of Illumina’s BeadArray(TM) products. The new case is [...]