The Biomedical Group of Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd. will make a sale of new DNA microarray chips for pharmacokinetic studies in rat and for researches on human hematopoietic stem cells as new products of "IntelliGene^®" CHIP.

Rat is one of very useful experimental animals, and is widely used to examine toxicity, efficacy, and metabolism of developing drugs. One of the developed DNA chips, named IntelliGene^® Rat Toxicology CHIP, contains micro-spots of DNA fragments from 395 kinds of genes including various cytochrome P450 genes. It can serve as a helpful tool to study metabolic responses of rats to drugs.

Contents of another IntelliGene^® DNA chip, named IntelliGene^® Human Stem Cell CHIP, are 374 kinds of genes which are selected from ones expressed in human hematopoietic stem cells. This DNA chip can be a useful tool to study regenerative therapy in hematopoietic system.

The Biomedical Group will continue to develop DNA chips rich in content to serve researchers in medical and biological fields.

This article is translated from the press release in Japanese for your convenience.