WaferGen Bio-systems Regains Compliance with Nasdaq Listing Requirements

FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS), a publicly held genomics technology company, announced today that on December 13, 2016, it received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC which acknowledged that, as of December 12, 2016, the closing bid price of WaferGen's common stock had been at $1.00 or greater for ten consecutive business days.  Accordingly, WaferGen has regained compliance with Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Regaining compliance follows WaferGen's 1-for-5 reverse stock split of its outstanding common stock that became effective at 4:01 p.m. Pacific Time on November 28, 2016.  This reverse stock split was implemented in order to increase the per share trading price of the company's common stock to satisfy the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

About WaferGen 
WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. is a biotechnology company that offers innovative genomic technology solutions for single-cell analysis and clinical research. The ICELL8™ Single-Cell System is a first of its kind system that can isolate thousands of single cells and processes specific cells for analysis, including Next Generation Sequencing. The system has demonstrated unbiased isolation of single cells from solid tumors, brain cells, pulmonary airway cells, and multiple cell lines. The SmartChip™ platform can be used for profiling and validating molecular biomarkers, and can perform massively-parallel singleplex PCR for one-step target enrichment and library preparation for clinical NGS. The Apollo 324™ system can be used to process DNA and RNA from clinical samples to next generation sequencing ready libraries. These technologies offer a powerful set of tools for biological analysis at the molecular and single-cell level in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and clinical laboratory industries.

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INVESTOR CONTACT:

WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc.
Rollie Carlson
510-277-3417
[email protected]

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