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Arrayjet Names GMI as North American Service Provider
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This article has been updated to include additional comments from Arrayjet. Arrayjet has tapped GMI to service and support its customers in the US and Canada, the company said this week.

Rounding Out NimbleGen Workflow, Roche Acquires BioMicro Hyb Station, Mixers
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The acquired assets include instruments that are part of the Roche NimbleGen microarray workflow, such as the 4- and-12-bay NimbleGen Hybridization Systems.

BioMicro Sells Microarray Assets to Roche

Roche Diagnostics has agreed to purchase the NimbleGen workflow-related microarray product assets from BioMicro.

People in the News: Sep 29, 2009
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Rob Parry, Patrik Dahlen, Ulf Landegren, Harry Stylli, Elizabeth Dragon, Paul Hawran, Steve Owings, Harry Hixson, Ronald Lindsay, Justin File

Arrayjet Taps MDS, American Medical Link to Be North American Reps; Plans Arrayer Upgrades
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The Roslin, UK-based firm, which sells instruments and software for printing arrays, has entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing arrangement with MDS. American Medical Link, meantime, has agreed to support and service Arrayjet instruments in the US and Canada.
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Pig Organ Transplants Considered

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Food and Drug Administration may soon allow clinical trials that involve transplanting pig organs into humans.

'Poo-Bank' Proposal

Harvard Medical School researchers suggest people should bank stool samples when they are young to transplant when they later develop age-related diseases.

Spurred to Develop Again

New Scientist reports that researchers may have uncovered why about 60 percent of in vitro fertilization embryos stop developing.

Science Papers Examine Breast Milk Cell Populations, Cerebral Cortex Cellular Diversity, Micronesia Population History

In Science this week: unique cell populations found within breast milk, 100 transcriptionally distinct cell populations uncovered in the cerebral cortex, and more.