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Toray Industries Develops Innovative Plastic and Hypersensitive Chip for Protein Analysis

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Article Date: 26 Feb 2005 - 18:00 PDT

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Tokyo (JCNN) - Toray Indsutries (TSE: 3402) has announced that it has prototyped a plastic chip designed for protein analysis. This half-card sized chip can detect a minute amount of disease-related proteins with 100 times the high sensitivity of the existing chip.

Using a minute amount of sample, the prototype chip conducts essential analytical procedures such as purification, separation (electrophoresis) and detection.

Toray expects that the latest breakthrough technology will pave the way for the advancement of biotechnologies including tailor-made medicine, proteome research and safety tests in the food and environmental industries.

View Toray Industries, Inc. company profile here

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