On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 03:28:39 +0000 (UTC), ragland37{at}webtv.net (Michael
Ragland) wrote:

>I recognize biology is very specialized but the below article is about a
>new cell array technology which can allow one to assay the location of
>proteins, study their function and predict their reaction to pathogens
>and drugs designed to attack those pathogens. According to the inventor
>Sabbatini, ""It's a system to look at the physiology of cells in an
>extremely high-throughput way that asks about the genes that underlie
>that physiology," So it seems this new cell array technology has the
>potential to assay the location of proteins and study their function as
>well as a high-throughput method that asks about the genes that underlie
>that physiology. So, while I agree with your statement, "That
>post-translational processing is NOT in the genome -- it is in the
>functioning of the complex organization of the cell machinery" being
>able to take as many as 10,000 pieces of DNA and growing clusters of
>live cells over them which result in the expression of whatever protein
>which the DNA 
>in that feature codes would seem to have the potential of asking
>questions about the genes which underlie that cell physiology.
>
>I only found one article on this new patented cell array technology. I
>haven't looked further. It seems to legit to me but how well it works
>and how useful it will be remains to be seen.
>
Once again, I have to emphasize that a better background in biology
would serve you very well.  Microarray technology is not something
new. It is an enormously important technique to do just exactly what
both you and I describe.  The fact that you could only find one
article on it means you were not searching properly -- you fastened on
one specific sideline which was patented and, as a business ploy,
produced a nice news release.  However a google search for "microarray
technology" yields over 70,000 hits.
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