SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NanoStringTM Technologies, Inc., an emerging life science tool provider and Applied Precision®, LLC, a leading provider of imaging, measurement and analysis systems for both the semiconductor and life science industries, today announced they have entered into an agreement for the co-development and manufacture of a custom, fully automated, high resolution, high speed fluorescent imager to be distributed by NanoString as a component of their nCounter™ System for Gene Expression.