For now, RainDance does not sell the test to doctors for use on patients, but Banerjee says it’s possible that the company’s research customers could use it to develop in-house tests.
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Cheaper Cancer Gene Tests, by the Drop
a standard practice, says Roopom Banerjee, RainDance’s CEO and a former clinical scientist at the Dana Farber Cancer institute in Boston. The challenge has been that the fixative breaks down DNA, so most DNA-sequencing methods can’t be used on these samples. RainDance’s technology, however, can make use of even a single intact copy of a gene, so now the more than 100 million preserved cancer samples currently stored in biobanks around the world could be used in cancer research, says Banerjee.
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