Affymetrix DNA analysis technology enables scientists to look at as many as 500,000 SNPs throughout the entire human genome, according to the company. Each SNP on a GeneChip Human Mapping Array is ...

Affymetrix Inc. has announced the publication of the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) study, a collaborative effort led by the FDA that included 137 scientists from private and public sector ...

Following the Silicon Valley pattern of jamming more power into less space, Santa Clara's Affymetrix will disclose today that it has packed most of the human genome onto two DNA chips. Previously, ...

Nature uses a common framework when building organisms as different as yeast, worms, fruit flies, mice, and humans. This makes it possible for scientists to learn about how our own genes work by ...

Ron Davis and I were studying plant transcription factors in 1990, but progress was slow and arduous because the gene expression tools were so primitive. We conceived of the DNA microarray in 1993 to ...