ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 5, 2009 (Marketwire) --

ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/05/09 -- Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks to Watch are: Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC), Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK), ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) and American Lithium Minerals Inc. (OTCBB: AMLM).

Investors need to be watching Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC) this AM! Arrayit Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of life science technologies and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation, biological function, and diagnostics. Arrayit offers a product line of approximately 650 tools to 2,500 laboratories worldwide. The company's products include microarrayers, microarray scanners, DNA and protein microarrays, microarray printing, microarray substrates and slides, microarray instruments, amplification and labeling, purification kits, microarray hardware, buffers and solutions, microarray cleanrooms, books and software, CGH microarrays, and microarray platforms. Arrayit's worldwide business position leverages the company's widely used patented microarray manufacturing platform and revolutionary VIP(TM) genotyping technology. Nearly every major research center in the world uses Arrayit products including research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, universities, biotechnology companies, hospitals, government agencies, and nonprofit research organizations. The company is also involved in the import, export, and distribution of industrial and food grade chemicals for plastics, fertilizers, and green energy applications. It has research collaboration with The Parkinson's Institute of Sunnyvale to discover biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. ARYC recently announced that it is developing a microarray-based diagnostic test to detect the H1N1 swine flu virus. The 2009 swine flu outbreak has raised concerns at the CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CDC and WHO believe that the current outbreak poses a pandemic risk because the H1N1 flu virus contains genetic elements from both the swine and human influenza viruses, allowing direct human-to-human transmission without the need for agricultural contact. Arrayit is an exciting and innovative public company that strives to increase shareholder equity by inventing, developing, manufacturing and supplying sophisticated life sciences products and services to an extensive customer base spanning 50 countries. Arrayit is a leader in the field of molecular diagnostics with patented technology that allows the screening and monitoring of up to 80,000 patient samples on a single microscope slide, rather than testing one patient per slide as is currently practiced. Their corporate philosophy is embodied by a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team of investors, business professionals, scientists, engineers and executive and support staff who place shareholder value, product quality, customer service and price competitiveness as their highest priorities.