Drug development speeds up with more advanced microarray technology
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 11:32
in Biology & Nature
RNA interference technology, which is used in cell biology, has revolutionized functional research of the gene products in the last ten years. Now researchers have developed a method which allows a single microchip to be used to screen the functions of tens of thousands of genes simultaneously by means of RNA interference. Traditional methods only allow a few hundred genes to be screened with each microplate.