MUKILTEO, Wash., March 12, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that it has received a four year contract for $858,298 from NASA’s Ames Research Center to design and test a microfluidic system that incorporates CombiMatrix’s semiconductor microarray as part of an integrated genetic analysis platform that can be deployed in satellites. Funding to CombiMatrix for the first year of this program will be $214,051 with three option years at similar funding levels.