AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today announced that it will host Planet xMAP USA 2008, the annual North American multiplexing technology symposium, March 3-5, at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. This fifth annual symposium will bring together leading scientists performing groundbreaking work on the Luminex xMAP® multiplexing technology platform in clinical diagnostics and life science research applications. The symposium will consist of three days of dynamic workshops, presentations, discussion groups, scientific posters and networking events. The symposium will feature keynote presentations from epidemiologist Dr. Kathi Kellar of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and microRNA pioneer Dr. Carlo Croce from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
