Acton, Massachusetts, March 2004 - Printed microarrays can accumulate oxidative damage over time leading to excessive background. Corning Life Sciences offers the Pronto! Pre-Soak Kit to help reduce background fluorescence of spotted arrays and prepare the arrays for hybridization.

The Pre-Soak Kit consists of the Pre-Soak Solution and Pre-Soak Tablets from the Pronto! Universal Hybridization Kit and can be used immediately after array fabrication or to rejuvenate printed arrays that have been stored for long periods of time. The kit includes ten Pre-Soak Tablets and 1L of Pre-Soak Solution for processing as many as one hundred arrays.

For additional information on Corning Life Sciences products or surface technologies, please contact a customer service representative at 1-800-492-1110, toll free in the United States, (+1) 978-635-2200 internationally, or visit www.corning.com/lifesciences.

Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that concentrates its efforts on high-impact growth opportunities. Corning combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, information display, environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries.

For addition information, contact:

Corning Incorporated
Life Sciences
Media Communications Representative
Julie Eckmann
45 Nagog Park
Acton, MA 01720
Tel: 978.635.2296
E-mail:eckmannj@corning.com