The advance allows highly precise printing of as many as 2.4 million microarrays per year with a single robotic workstation, a significant increase over the Company’s current capacity of 640,000 microarrays per instrument annually.
Arrayit Executive Vice President and Co-Founder Todd Martinsky stated, “This technological advance represents an engineering tour de force that combines our expertise in laboratory automation, linear drive robotics, micromachining, surface chemistry and contact printing. Leveraging our core tech competencies and patented contact printing platform in this manner should further enhance our competitive differentiation in the diagnostics market.”
Arrayit is currently developing early stage definitive diagnostic tests for Ovarian Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, H1N1 and other illnesses. The Pre-Symptomatic Ovarian Cancer Diagnostic Test, OvaDx(TM), will be marketed and sold upon FDA approval by the Company’s Houston-based subsidiary Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. The worldwide market for OvaDx(TM) is estimated at 175 million microarray tests annually.
About Arrayit Corporation
Arrayit Corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, leads and empowers the genetic, research, pharmaceutical and diagnostic communities through the discovery, development and manufacture of proprietary life science technologies and consumables for disease prevention, treatment and cure. It now offers over 650 products to a customer base of more than 10,000 laboratories worldwide, including almost every major university, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, major agricultural and chemical companies, government agencies, national research foundations and many private sector enterprises. Please visit www.arrayit.com for more information.