WALTHAM, Mass.—Persomics Inc. and Porvair Sciences have linked up in a collaboration to develop and supply ANSI/SLAS format arrays as an OEM product for Persomics’ ImagineArray platform. ImagineArrays, in which microplate wells are replaced with contact-printed spots on slides mounted into an SLAS/ANSI format frame, make it possible to edit or silence thousands of genes on a single slide. Each “spot” contains an individual or pooled gRNA, siRNA or miRNA and all reagents necessary for transfection, making each spot a solitary experiment for editing or silencing a gene in the cells growing above the RNA.

 

Steve Knight, marketing director at Porvair, remarked that “This is yet another example of a collaborative development project between Porvair Sciences and a young start-up technology company that enables novel technology to be delivered to the market in the industry-standard microplate format with all the advantages of automation, handling and detection that the format confers.”