Abstract Background With over 20 million formalin-fixed. paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue samples archived each year in the United States alone. archival tissues remain a vast and under-utilized resource in the genomic study of cancer. Technologies have recently been introduced for whole-transcriptome amplification and microarray analysis of degraded mRNA fragments from FFPE samples. https://www.marcelovicente.com/product-category/6-40-6ccc/