Nature Medicine
4, 767 - 768 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0798-767
Full speed ahead for tumor screeningCharles TheilletGénome et Cancer, UMR 5535 CNRS CRLC de Montpellier, France email: theillet@igm.cnrs-mop.fr A new high-throughput tissue microarray technology is capable of simultaneously testing hundreds of tumor samples for a number of different molecular markers (pages 848−847).
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