MUKILTEO, Wash., Feb. 26, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that its subsidiary, CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics (CMDX), has completed clinical validation and has commercially launched the HerScan(tm) test, the first Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) array-based test for breast cancer. The HerScan test is designed to detect amplification of the HER2 gene in early breast cancer while simultaneously giving clinicians a complete profile of a patient's tumor genome.
