Tissue-Pixelation Chip Measures Spatial RNA Expression in Tumor Samples

Scientists have developed a microchip-based RNA analysis technology that can directly measure gene expression spatially across samples of cancer tissue within just a couple of hours. The chip’s developers, led by Rashid Bashir, Ph.D., and Farhad Kosari, Ph.D., at the Mayo-Illinois Alliance for Technology Based Healthcare, suggest that their “tissue pixelation” spatial amplification technology will provide greater insight into the expression profiles of patients’ tumors th