Researchers from Applied Biosystems and Ghent University Demonstrate Effectiveness of Megaplex(TM) miRNA Profiling Tools on Small Samples

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers from the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium and Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) have published a study demonstrating the effectiveness of a new method for profiling microRNAs in small samples. The study, entitled “High-throughput stem-loop RT-PCR miRNA expression profiling using minute amounts of input RNA,” describes the simultaneous profiling of 450 human microRNAs from samples as small as a single cell. The paper appears online in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. The study provides validation for a new workflow for miRNA analysis developed by Applied Biosystems to enable highly sensitive, high-throughput detection of miRNAs from extremely small biological samples.