OMAHA, Neb. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Transgenomic, Inc. (OTC/BB: TBIO) and ScreenCell, a privately-held company, today announced the signing of a perpetual, worldwide collaboration and distribution agreement for ScreenCell’s Isolation Devices and Dilution Buffers, designed for the collection of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood. ScreenCell® offers innovative, single-use devices to isolate by size and characterize all possible tumor cells, including mesenchymal cells. Mesenchymal cells, thought to be cancer stem cells important in cancer assessment, are not collected through technologies that only target cells expressing EpCam, a transmembrane glycoprotein on epithelial cells. Their collection is therefore a key advantage of ScreenCell’s technologies. Collected cells are also well preserved morphologically, allowing isolation of live cells able to grow in culture and collection of high quality genetic materials.
