Rapidly advancing technology has created exciting opportunities for researchers and physicians who are trying to elucidate the causes of disease, create predictive or diagnostic assays and develop effective therapeutic treatments. Large-scale and high-throughput genomic and proteomic studies are generating vast amounts of data that are already leading to the identification of drug targets and disease biomarkers. The new challenge is to sift through all of the gene and protein expression data to find clinically relevant information. A rate-limiting step in the screening process has been the need to examine histological samples one at a time. This degree of scrutiny is necessary to interpret the often complex expression and distribution patterns of target molecules within actual tissues. To overcome this limitation, scientists have created a new research tool called the “tissue microarray” (TMA). 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 specialized instrumentation that can remove small, circular punches from tissue specimens and array up to 1,000 different samples on the same slide. In addition to the tools for creating arrays, TMA studies frequently employ sophisticated methods for scanning the processed arrays as well as for archiving and analyzing the resulting visual data. Besides increasing throughput, TMAs offer the following benefits: conservation of precious tissue resources, improved internal experimental control, reduced consumption of reagents and facilitation of multicenter research studies. Applications include studies that attempt to link gene expression data with stages of tumor progression, screening and validation of drug targets, and quality control for molecular detection methods.

Quick-Ray®, a tissue arrayer, a device manufactured with the latest state-of-the art technology , allows the researcher to assemble in order tissue specimens of multiple patients on one slide.
This tissue arrayer process is now a preferred method used in pathologic research. Quick-Ray® tissue arrayer performance efficacy has been substantiated via many of our research papers that have been published, proving impressive increase of research efficiency. our device enables preparing and analyzing multiple genes and proteins from the same tissue.

Further, Quick-Ray® not only decreases the use of reagent, time and human resource to below one sixtieth, but also can be applied to almost any tissue processing and analyzing needed for immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, FISH and in situ PCR.
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