WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2006--Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBIO - News) today announced it has placed an order for 25 Barocycler NEP3229 units with Source Scientific, LLC, the manufacturer of the Company's PCT equipment and disposable products line. The NEP3229 is the new bench top version of the Company's pressure cycling instrument (the Barocycler), designed to be a more cost-effective and user-friendly alternative to the original floor model Barocycler instrument, the NEP2017. Sixteen NEP3229 units were initially manufactured between June and December of 2005 as part of the Company's strategic plan to have the instruments evaluated in leading laboratories throughout North America and Japan. Of these sixteen units, five have been sold, six are in the laboratories of collaborators, three will soon be shipped to new collaborator sites, and two are being used for internal R&D.
