MILL VALLEY, Calif. & MCMURRAY, Pa. — BioCision, LLC and Micronic North America announce today a new agreement to make BioCision products available through Micronic North America’s sales network. The initial emphasis will be on pairing BioCision’s CoolRack(R) thermo-conductive tube and plate modules with Micronic’s array of sample collection tubes and plates. The CoolRack product portfolio and CoolBox(TM) ice-free cooling/freezing accessories offer Micronic’s customers a benchtop solution for achieving temperature standardization and reproducibility when working with samples on ice, dry ice, liquid nitrogen or in water baths.

“BioCision products are a great addition to what we can offer our customers,” said Micronic CEO James Mortimer. “We cater to the genomics and biorepository markets, offering a consultative approach to satisfying customer needs related to sample collection, sample storage, traceability, automation and measurement. We want to make sure our customers are getting exactly what they need to meet their complete application requirements.”

BioCision specializes in benchtop tools that ensure sample consistency, reproducibility and standardization. The products are widely applicable to samples ranging from viruses, bacteria, proteins, cells, tissues, nucleic acid, blood and others. They are routinely used in applications in drug discovery, and basic and clinical research, where experimental reproducibility is critical.

Micronic has over 25 years of experience in development, production and sales of products to meet sample storage and liquid handling needs, and specializes in providing its customers with traceable sample storage solutions.

“BioCision and Micronic share the common goal of ensuring reliable and reproducible handling of biological samples,” said BioCision CEO Rolf Ehrhardt, MD, PhD. “Our existing product lines complement each other and offer a robust solution to our mutual customers. We are excited about the possibilities of addressing unmet needs of the research community through future product collaborations.”

To launch this new agreement, Micronic will showcase BioCision products at the International Symposium on Human Identification conference on October 4-6, 2011 in National Harbor, Maryland.

About BioCision

Based in Mill Valley, Calif., BioCision(R) is the leading global developer of benchtop sample and assay management tools. The company’s patent-pending products enable uniform and reproducible sample collection, organization and protection during temperature-sensitive procedures such as ice cooling, snap-freezing, thawing and cryopreservation. BioCision’s line of benchtop tools include CoolRack(R), CoolSink(TM) and CoolTray(TM) thermo-conductive tube and plate modules; CoolBox(TM) ice-free portable cooling/freezing containers; CoolCell(R) alcohol-free maintenance-free cell freezing containers; and accessories.

About Micronic North America

Based in McMurray, Penn., Micronic North America is an innovator in the sample storage industry, offering a full solution for all things sample management: sample collection, storage, traceability, automation, and measurement. The company’s extensive and ever-growing product portfolio includes only products that fit a specific need in the sample management process, with every product painstakingly assessed for its value before being released. Products include non-coded, Alphanumeric, and 2D barcoded tubes, caps and racks; sealing mats; constant-temperature racks; barcode readers and tubesorters; manual and automated (de)cappers; tube labelers and specialty labels; sample data management and molecular biology software; liquid-handling products; data and evidence collection tubes; and a small-volume spectrophotometer for DNA/RNA/protein quantification.