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Personal Genome Diagnostics RNAcomplete

Oct 26, 2016

Personal Genome Diagnostics has launched RNAcomplete, a new testing service that allows researchers to co-extract total RNA and genomic DNA from a single tissue sample. The testing service uses RNA-seq to analyze gene transcripts corresponding to more than 34,000 genes and 84,000 transcript isoforms. It has been optimized for maximum performance using FFPE tissue and employs a macrodissection process for improved sensitivity and specificity, the company said.

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