"If you use a mobile phone with a camera, thank Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA)," says Mike Cintolo in the Cabot Top Ten Report. "When it comes to miniaturization, Tessera is the go-to company."

"Tessera is one of the companies that drove the price of camera components down by miniaturizing them and combining them on a single chip.

"You'll find its technology in MP3 players, video games, wireless phones, computers and numerous other products where companies are forever working to design products smaller and manufacture them more cheaply.

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"Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN) makes the Genome Analyzer, which is the workhorse of the genetic medicine revolution," says growth expert Mike Cintolo in The Cabot Top Ten Report.

"The Illumina Genome Analyzer is used by genomic research centers, academic institutions, agriculture and livestock companies, pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organizations and biotechnology companies all over the world.

"In the fourth quarter of 2008, for example, the company launched the In? nium HD HumanCytoSNP-12 BeadChip, a 12 sample BeadChip priced as low as $125 per sample that enables researchers to analyze nearly 300,000 genetic markers per sample.

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"Our favorite current investment idea is Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX)," says Michael Cintolo, editor of The Cabot Top Ten Report, which each week reviews ten issues that have been showing strong price momentum.

"Netflix bolted higher on a great earnings report last week, and impressively, followed through to the upside for a few days. Bad economic times seem to mean good news for Netflix, as an evening at home with a few DVDs is way easier on the budget than even a bargain matinee at the Cineplex.

"That's the message of Netflix' boffo quarterly results that came out on January 26. Earnings walloped analysts' estimates and more than twice the predicted number of new subscribers signed up.

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