MUKILTEO, Wash., Sept. 25, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqCM:CBMX - News) announced today that its subsidiary, CombiMatrix Molecular Diagnostics (or ``CMDX’’), has completed the clinical validation of the third of its HemeScan(tm) suite of Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (or ``BAC’’) Comparative Genomic Hybridization (or ``CGH’’) array-based tests. HemeScan(tm) MDS (myelodysplastic syndromes) is designed to detect clonal prognostic markers in bone marrow aspirates from patients with refractory anemia combining diagnosis of pre-leukemia with individualized risk stratification and treatment planning. It is now available to the clinical community through both routine clinical sample processing as well as through CMDX’s innovative Technical Only Program for reference laboratories. The HemeScan tests are the industry’s first clinically validated cancer diagnostics based on BAC array CGH technology.
