BioTime Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year End 2012 Financial Results and Recent Corporate Accomplishments

)--BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2012 and highlighted its fourth quarter and recent corporate accomplishments.

Fourth Quarter and Recent Highlighted Corporate Accomplishments

• Entered into a definitive agreement with Geron Corporation in which BioTime’s subsidiary BioTime Acquisition Corporation (BAC) will acquire the patents and patent applications, biological materials, and other assets related to Geron’s human embryonic stem (hES) cell programs, including Geron’s Phase I clinical trial of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in patients with acute spinal cord injury, as well as its Phase I/II clinical trial of its autologous cellular immunotherapy program in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia.

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