Harvest Technologies Corporation Release: Case Study Reports That Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon Injects Adult Stem Cells Derived From The Patient’s Own Marrow Into Her Broken Legs, Which Had Not Healed By Seven Months Post-Injury -- Instead Of Open Surgery

PLYMOUTH, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 08, 2007 -- Harvest Technologies Corp. (www.harvesttech.com) announced today that Rafael Neiman, M.D., of Orthopedic Trauma Surgeons of Northern California, injected a 49-year-old female patient’s own bone marrow stem cells into the fracture and nonunion sites of both her legs that had not healed since injured in a skiing accident seven months earlier. Dr. Neiman reports that complete fracture closure and union was achieved in both legs. This case is noteworthy because Dr. Neiman treated his patient without open surgery by collecting, processing, and returning the patient’s own bone marrow stem cells at the patient’s bedside in the same procedure.

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