ARRAYJET, the Midlothian instrumentation company, has launched a consultancy service to offer its bio-printing expertise to life sciences businesses around the world.

The company’s printers use inkjet printheads to print biological material – including the DNA from a single gene, or a single protein or antibody – onto glass slides to create microarrays – likened to a microchip for biological screening in large-scale diagnostic or genetic tests.

The new ‘Arrayjet Advance’ service will offer access to the firm’s in-house scientific team and fully automated laboratory complex, to offer fast and accurate analytics using Arrayjet’s novel inkjet technology. Chief executive Iain McWilliam said an increasing number of research laboratories were looking to adopt microarray technology.