Tumor heterogeneity resolved: A new technology isolates pure tumor cells from FFPE samples

(SiliconBiosystems) A new study, published last week by Nature Scientific Report, presents a revolutionary method to isolate 100 percent pure tumor and stromal cell populations from minute formalin fixed, paraffin embedded specimens using the DEPArrayTM technology. Scientists at Silicon Biosystems, a Bologna (Italy) and San Diego (CA, USA) based biotech company, demonstrated that DEPArrayTM sorting allows downstream analysis of tumor genetic characteristics via next generation sequencing (NGS) w