San Diego, CA; May 28, 2008 - Veridiam, Inc. announced today an expansion of its VTA-100 tissue arrayer product line featuring the availability of microarrayer instruments supplemented with trinocular microscopes, digital cameras, laptop computers, and tissue microarray data analysis software. Veridiam tissue arrayers are based on proprietary technologies and know-how to produce customized microarrays using tissue material extracted from paraffin blocks and assembled on a single glass slide. Veridiam arrayers are currently the only instruments featuring a microscope station integrated and indexed with the donor and recipient block stations. In addition, all VTA-100 and VTA-110 microarrayers offer a unique multiple Z-height stop technology that enables precise delivery of paraffin tissue cores and prevents loss of precious tissue material.

The new VTA-100 arrayers (supplied with a binocular microscope) and VTA-110 arrayers (provided with a trinocular microscope) can now be enhanced by attaching a variety of low- and high resolution digital cameras connected to PC or MAC computer systems to provide tissue section imaging and file archiving capabilities. The TMA Foresight software package, originally developed by Premier Biosoft International, Inc., was designed to correlate biomarker expression in tissue microarrayers with clinical parameters and outcomes. These options provide the researcher with a variety of new tools for constructing, imaging and analyzing precise high-density tissue arrays in automated histopathology applications.

"Engineered and manufactured at our facility in Southern California, VTA-100 and VTA-110 tissue arrayers will considerably extend current capabilities of Veridiam tissue microarray product line and provide a cost-effective solution by integrating and packaging state of the art optics, vision systems, and imaging software", commented Patrick Lorenz, the General Manager of Veridiam facility in Oceanside, CA.

"The new product extension reflects our strength in the design and manufacturing of the microarrayer technology platform," said Neal Nordstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Veridiam, Inc. "We will continue to develop and produce innovative high-quality tissue arrayer instrumentation for our customers in academia, biopharmaceutical industry, and clinical laboratories."

All VTA-100 and VTA-110 tissue arrayers are available immediately from Veridiam's international distributors or its web site http://www.veridiamtissuearrayer.com/arrayerpr.html.

For more information, please contact Dr. Eugene Mechetner at (949) 857-6449, emechetner@cox.net.

About Veridiam

Veridiam, formerly known as Carpenter Special Products Corporation prior to its June, 2005 sale by Carpenter Technology Corporation to WHI Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, is a contract manufacturer serving the Endoscopy/Arthroscopy, Dental/Orthodontic, Orthopaedic and Vascular OEM's. Veridiam Medical offers comprehensive materials and manufacturing solutions that help give our customers an edge in their market place. These solutions include proprietary alloys, unique manufacturing processes, design for manufacturability, material selection/development, rapid prototyping, comprehensive component machining, tube drawing/forming and assembly. We seamlessly deliver projects from the development phase through full scale production. Veridiam Medical will manage the complete supply chain, saving time and expense while delivering a finished device to specification on time. Our operations include 3 facilities in San Diego, CA county and a facility in San Jose, Costa Rica. We offer you a wide variety of fabrication options and custom engineered products to meet almost any design challenge. All products are quality system certified to ISO 9001:2000, AS 9100, and NQA-1. Veridiam Inc., P.O. Box 609036, San Diego, CA 92160-9036; (866) 466.6584; www.veridiam.com.

For more information, please contact

Dr. Eugene Mechetner
(949) 857-6449; emechetner@cox.net.

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VTA Tissue Arrayer by Veridiam