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10x Genomics Begins Commercial Shipments of Xenium Prime 5K Pan-Tissue and Pathways Panel
New 5,000-plex gene panel increases plex by an order of magnitude and delivers industry-leading speed and throughput PLEASANTON, Calif., June 20, 2024
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[{"type":"text","content":"New 5,000-plex gene panel increases plex by an order of magnitude and delivers industry-leading speed and throughput\nPLEASANTON, Calif., June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), a leader in single cell and spatial biology, announced today that it has started shipping its new Xenium Prime 5K Pan-Tissue and Pathways panel. The new panel features an enhanced chemistry to increase plex by an order of magnitude while delivering excellent per-gene sensitivity, improved specificity and spatial fidelity, integrated multimodal cell segmentation and industry-leading speed and throughput.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"It's been awesome to see the early enthusiasm for the 5K gene panel from our customers, who appreciate the product for both its high plex and its high performance,\" said Ben Hindson, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at 10x Genomics. \"Xenium Prime 5K is an incredible product that delivers outstanding results across every metric that matters, including sensitivity, specificity and throughput. This is our fifth major product launch this year, as we continue to deliver ground-breaking innovations to help customers pursue ground-breaking discoveries.\"\nKey features of the new high-plex Xenium Prime 5K assay include:\nHighest plex Xenium panel containing 5,000 genes for the comprehensive profiling of cell types and states and cell signaling pathways across multiple tissue and disease types.Excellent data quality to unlock mechanisms of disease, therapeutics and cell behavior. The Xenium Prime 5K assay is optimized for performance and paired with 10x Genomics' advanced multimodal cell segmentation, enabling high sensitivity, specificity and spatial fidelity.Rapid turnaround time. 10x Genomics' industry-leading throughput enables researchers to analyze up to 472 mm² of human or mouse tissue in six days or less.Easily customizable with up to 100 additional genes, including isoforms, exogenous sequences like gRNAs and barcodes, CAR-T transcripts, viruses and more.Rigorously designed and developed using single cell RNA-seq data from dozens of different organs and tissues, gene expression profiles from hundreds of cell types and a screen of more than 750,000 peer-reviewed publications to pinpoint highly cited biomarkers.Easy, tissue-agnostic workflow compatible with both fresh frozen and FFPE samples.The c...