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St Paul, Minnesota, September 22, 2008 – MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations & neurology research will showcase its inflammations related pre-clinical services and research products at the 13^th Congress of The Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) in Japan on September 23 – 27, 2008. APLAR focuses on providing state of the art care to patients with arthritis and other musculoskeletal diseases through continuing professional development of members, increasing the awareness and understanding about rheumatic diseases, patient advocacy and empowerment, and fostering research in the field of rheumatic diseases.

MD Biosciences, with roots in the sales of rheumatoid arthritis research reagents, will feature it’s capabilities in preclinical outsourcing services such as the Collagen-Induced Arthritis (CIA), Collagen Antibody-induced Arthritis (CAIA), Adjuvant Induced arthritis (AIA), Monoarthritic Pain, along with general inflammation assays and the Senerga® Mode of Action Platform. MD Biosciences offers customization of all protocols as well as end-point readouts such as biomarker analysis, histology, and gene expression analysis. MD Biosciences research products featured at the conference include collagen related reagents and assays, ArthritoMab™ antibody cocktail, ELISAs, Aggrecan antibodies and T-cell antibodies.

In addition to the product and service offerings within Arthritis, MD Biosciences also offers products and services within other therapeutic areas such as Multiple sclerosis, Respiratory, IBD, Type I Diabetes, Endotoxic shock, Contact Dermatitis, Inflammatory and Arthritic Pain, Gliosis, and Parkinson's Disease.

Our Inflammations Discovery Service offers quick start dates and timely delivery of data, specialized scientists with experience using small molecules and biologicals, standard and specialized routes of administration, customized protocols and the development of novel models.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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St Paul, Minnesota, September 15, 2008 – MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations & neurology research will showcase its inflammations related pre-clinical services and research products at the Inflammation Research Association (IRA) International Conference, September 21-24, Chantilly, VA. Capabilities featured will be pre-clinical efficacy disease models and research products for drug discovery and research.

MD Biosciences will be hosting a lunch and learn session titled “Discovery of novel therapies for asthma requires suitable and relevant disease models”. Conference attendees are invited to register for this free session upon arrival of the conference. This session will focus on the OVA-induced Asthma model and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) as well as the OVA-IgE specific ELISA for measuring OVA specific IgE levels in murine serum samples.

MD Biosciences services that will be featured throughout the conference include the Collagen-Induced Arthritis (CIA), Collagen Antibody-induced Arthritis (CAIA), Adjuvant Induced arthritis (AIA), Monoarthritic Pain, OVA-induced Asthma along with general inflammation assays. Products include collagen related reagents and assays, ArthritoMab™ antibody cocktail, OVA-IgE ELISA, Aggrecan antibodies and T-cell antibodies.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.

MD Biosciences, a global biotechnology company focused in inflammations and neurology research, is expanding its line of arthritis and pain preclinical services with the addition of the CFA-induced monoarthritic pain model. The model offers advantages over traditional arthritis models in that disease develops in only one joint allowing a comparison to the healthy joint. The quantification of pain associated with arthritis can be useful in elucidating the mechanisms of arthritis as well as evaluating the efficacy of anti-arthritic drug compounds in the discovery phase.

The monoarthritic pain model is a 28-day model with arthritis and subsequent pain present in a single joint. Pain response develops 1 day post-induction. Readouts available are clinical signs and scoring, body weights, mechanical and thermal stimuli, weight bearing, histology and cytokine analysis.

In addition to the monoarthritic pain model, MD Biosciences offers the traditional Adjuvant-induced arthritis model that allows for traditional pain measurements as well as a record of spontaneous pain using the Foot Print of Pain method. Other Arthritis models and research reagents include the Collagen Induced Arthritis (CIA) and Collagen Antibody Induced Arthritis (CAIA), ArthritoMab™ Arthritogenic Antibody Cocktail, Collagen Reagents, Collagen Antibodies and Collagen-related ELISA Kits and Assays.

About MD Biosciences
MD Biosciences provides products and pre-clinical services for companies engaged in inflammations and neurology research. The company is headquartered in Switzerland and has specialized laboratories located in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel. A panel of scientific experts provides companies’ in-depth expertise and technologies to tackle problems and provide flexible drug discovery solutions, enabling smarter results faster.

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The information in this press release should be considered accurate only as of the date of the release. MD Biosciences has no intention of updating and specifically disclaims any duty to update the information in these press releases.