Biological Detection & Diagnostic Services Lead to Potential Revenue Growth as Collaborations and Innovative Product Advancements Are Announced

CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Technological developments, collaborations and advancements with health care services, environmental, governmental & biological detection systems race to improve services for testing, identifying and monitoring infectious risks, diseases and biohazard threats for the medical & defense industries.  Health Care & Diagnostic Research Companies in focus today are:  PositiveID Corporation (OTC: PSID), Prima BioMed Ltd (NASDAQ: PBMD), Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), Affymetrix, Inc., (NASDAQ: AFFX) and & Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A)

PositiveID Corporation (OTCQB: PSID), a developer of biological detection and diagnostics solutions, announced today that it has entered a co-marketing agreement with DirectView Security Systems, Inc.  (OTC: DIRV ("DirectView"), a provider of video surveillance systems including body worn cameras, to jointly market  the companies' products to homeland security and first responders.  PositiveID develops molecular diagnostic systems, including Firefly Dx, which is designed to provide real-time, accurate diagnostic results in a handheld device, thereby leading to treatment scenarios at the point of need that are not possible with existing systems, which require lab-based equipment and can take hours or even days to provide results. Firefly's applications for first responders include point-of-need, lab-quality detection of pathogenic organisms and detection of biological agents associated with weapons of mass destruction.

Read the full PSID Press Release at http://www.financialnewsmedia.com/profiles/psid.html

DirectView provides, among other products and services, body worn cameras, video storage servers, digital video recorders, and network video recorders, to address the needs of first responders.  "We are excited to enter into this co-marketing agreement with DirectView to include video surveillance solutions and body worn cameras to our line of first responder products," stated William J. Caragol, Chairman and CEO of PositiveID. "Through collaborating with companies like DirectView we accomplish two important goals: adding synergistic products and leveraging the sales channels of both companies to maximize our efforts and achieve better results."

In other Healthcare services news and happenings around the sector:  Prima BioMed Ltd (NASDAQ: PBMD), a leading immuno-oncology company, recently announced that it has made substantial progress with its lead product, IMP321.  Prima advises that it has filed a provisional patent application over the use of IMP321 in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors. This breakthrough science not only bodes well for future clinical work on IMP321; it also offers commercial upside given the widespread expectation that new drugs working through various immune checkpoints will become blockbusters. In addition, this work has allowed Prima to further build on the patent estate protecting IMP321, with patent exclusivity for the product now potentially running to 2035 or beyond if granted and extended.

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company committed to enabling healthier lives through the development of innovative products and services, announced in late May that its wholly owned subsidiary, Sequenom Laboratories, will move its laboratory operations in Grand Rapids, Michigan to its facility in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina.  Sequenom Laboratories' cystic fibrosis carrier screen test will now be performed at the North Carolina laboratory location.  "The expansion of our North Carolina laboratory operations to include our HerediT® CF carrier screen test will enable us to continue to provide high quality and meaningful test offerings to physicians and their patients while continuing to build value for our shareholders," said William Welch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sequenom.

Affymetrix, Inc., (NASDAQ: AFFX) announced recently that it has acquired substantially all the assets of Hercules, CA-based Eureka Genomics® Corporation for $15 million in an all cash transaction. Eureka Genomics is a developer of cost-effective, low- to mid-plex, high throughput genotyping assays that use common next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms for signal readout. These assays enable the detection of hundreds to thousands of genetic markers which are increasingly in demand for routine crop and animal agrigenomics testing.  Affymetrix will immediately launch the Eureka Genomics' technologies as Eureka Genotyping Solution and Services for use in a wide range of routine animal and plant testing applications through an early access program.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) announced updates to its SurePrint gene expression microarrays for messenger RNA profiling applications for human, mouse and rat models. The updates improve coding and noncoding content, which will provide up-to-date tools for researchers to investigate expression patterns on a highly accessible platform.  Agilent developed the updates to its flagship SurePrint G3 Human v3 gene expression microarray in collaboration with Ghent University for complete coverage of the LNCipedia 2.1 database to assay high-confidence, long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) transcripts.

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