Affymetrix and NuGEN Announce Agreement to Co-market the NuGEN WT-Ovation FFPE System

Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) and NuGEN Technologies Inc., a privately held company that develops and commercializes nucleic acid amplification and labeling systems for small and difficult samples, announced their agreement to co-market a solution that enables researchers to access FFPE (formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded) tissue samples derived from years of clinical studies previously inaccessible by traditional RNA amplification methods. The NuGEN WT-Ovation(TM) FFPE System provides scientists the opportunity to conduct global gene expression analysis on their vast archives of small and degraded FFPE samples, using standard Affymetrix GeneChip(R) 3' expression arrays.

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