RoboDesign is dedicated to the development of biotech and
laboratory automation equipment and robotics, including the latest integrated
technologies for protein crystallization growth, storage, retrieval, and
imaging.
(Logo: http://www."
FEI has led the development of cryo electron microscopy for the imaging of
biological structures in close collaboration with many top level academic
groups in Europe and the US. With offices in Stockholm and Lund, Sweden and San Diego,
California, Sidec offers contract research to the pharmaceutical industry and
academic institutions.

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RoboDesign offers standard as well as custom products
for drug discovery, laboratory, and hospital automation.

FEI and Sidec Tackle Validation of Drug Targets

com. More information can be found on the FEI website at:
http://www.fei.

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RoboDesign's products enable greatly enhanced productivity for
pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations involved in proteomics and
structural biology research.
RoboDesign International, Inc. In addition , with
its broad range of technical expertise, RoboDesign is uniquely positioned to
provide a wide array of engineering services, from rapid prototyping to OEM
design and manufacturing.robodesign .

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CARLSBAD, Calif., based
in Auburn Hills, MI, is a world leader in designing and manufacturing
precision optics for life sciences, semiconductor and microlithography
markets.
"We have a long-standing reputation for providing enabling tools for life
science.

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Its products are in use
in more than 70 countries -- supporting research, development, and quality
assurance activities . is a premier source for the development,
design, and manufacture of automation solutions and instrumentation for the
life sciences industry. Based on current market practices,
Protein Tomography is estimated to be a (U.
"FEI is very pleased to offer this advanced solution for Protein
Tomography with Sidec," commented Vahe Sarkissian, president and CEO of FEI. More information can be found at http: //www.

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Mr. Keith Crane will serve and President and COO. Prior
to this appointment, Mr. group focused on X-ray instrumentation.
Protein Tomography is a new technology developed to address critical
issues around drug target validation and translational medicine in the
pharmaceutical industry , improving target validation processes and shortening
development time for new pharmaceuticals.

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Since its inception in Japan in 1951, Rigaku Corporation has been at the
forefront of analytical and industrial instrumentation technology. "Many drugs fail when they progress from pre-clinical studies to
clinical trials.

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Rigaku/MSC, Inc and Osmic, Inc. With hundreds of major innovations to its credit, Rigaku and its
subsidiary companies are world leaders in the fields of small molecule and
protein crystallography, X-ray spectrometry + diffraction, X-ray optics, as
well as semiconductor metrology."

About Sidec Technologies AB
Sidec Technologies AB provides solutions to significantly improve the
predictive value of pre-clinical experiments.

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in The Woodlands, TX, and brings over 18 years of experience
within the Rigaku organization.

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"Understanding drug targets and the disease mechanisms on a molecular
level is extremely difficult, resulting in severe problems when translating
bench research into human biology," commented Hans Johansson, president and
CEO of Sidec.
Protein Tomography consists of advanced electron microscopy
instrumentation, proprietary data acquisition and reconstruction software as
well as scientific expertise to enable the imaging and analysis of individual
protein molecules in cells and tissues.

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announced today that all of its outstanding shares have been purchased by
Rigaku/MSC, Inc. Sidec is pioneering the field of protein imaging
using cryo electron tomography and has several research collaborations with
global pharmaceutical companies.

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) $200 million market with the
potential to grow several fold within a few years.

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He also spearheaded Rigaku/MSC's very
successful internal automation projects (ACTOR(TM) and AGENT(TM)) for the
structural proteomics market. are two wholly owned subsidiaries that form a
U. With R+D centers in North America and Europe,
and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world,
FEI is bringing the nanoscale within the grasp of leading researchers and
manufacturers and helping to turn some of the biggest ideas of this century
into reality.

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S. As we move from the genomics to the proteomics era, we will continue
to identify customer needs and work to deliver the advanced applications that
our growing and diverse life science market, which we refer to as NanoBiology ,
demands.

About FEI
FEI's Tools for Nanotech(TM), featuring focused ion- and electron -beam
technologies, deliver 3D characterization, analysis and modification
capabilities with resolution down to the sub-Angstrom level and provide
innovative solutions for customers working in NanoBiology , NanoResearch and
NanoElectronics. Factors that could affect these forward-looking
statements include but are not limited to the inability of FEI or Sidec to
successfully complete the development described, the emergence of competing
technologies that offer more effective or less expensive solutions to TEM-
based Protein Tomography, failure of the new application to function as
expected, failure of the market to develop as expected and the inability of
customers to develop and deploy the expected new applications or to achieve
the performance described.S.

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, a leading
producer of crystallographic hardware, software and contract research, also
serves as a distributor for all of Rigaku's product lines.com
I: http://www. Protein Tomography(TM) to Improve Success in Drug Development

HILLSBORO, Ore. The company's proprietary 3-D
reconstruction technology and electron tomography enables the visualization of
disease events at a molecular level, in virtually any environment and
biological context, thereby bridging the current gap between the test tube and
human biology.

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Crane was Senior Vice President of Operations at
Rigaku/MSC, Inc.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that include
statements about future development of, the market for and potential benefits
of TEM-based Protein Tomography to aid in drug development as well as the
expected size of that market.

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, will enhance
its focus on delivery of fully integrated automated solutions for high
throughput protein crystal growth and screening so as to integrate with
Rigaku /MSC's other recent initiatives, including the development of software
that spans the entire range from single crystal X-ray diffraction data
collection through structure solution (Molecular Images division) as well as
Rigaku/MSC's line of high-throughput home laboratory (HomeLab(TM)) and robotic
(ACTOR(TM) and AGENT(TM)) X-ray crystallography solutions. FEI and Sidec offer this as a service
through Sidec, as an on-premises service, or through a software and other
intellectual property license arrangement combined with a TEM system sale.

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Throughout the world, Rigaku continuously promotes
partnerships, dialog, and innovation within the global scientific and
industrial community. Imaging and comparing drug targets from different species
using Protein Tomography provides insight into the molecular differences
underlying this attrition.

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From fully automated pharmacy systems to protein
crystal imaging and analysis, RoboDesign's enabling technologies are playing a
vital role in all phases of the fight against disease.S. FEI
assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements

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About Rigaku/MSC, Inc., FEI Company
(Nasdaq: FEIC) and Sweden-based Sidec Technologies AB today announced that the
two companies will collaborate on the commercialization of Protein Tomography
solutions and services based on Sidec's proprietary software and intellectual
property, and FEI 's transmission electron microscopes (TEMs).

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RoboDesign(R) International Inc. Announced Today Its Acquisition by Rigaku/MSC

Rigaku/MSC, Inc. Osmic, Inc. Rigaku employs over 1,100 people in the
manufacture and support of its analytical equipment.

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Company operations will continue in Carlsbad, CA under the RoboDesign
International name. The company's products for NanoBiology address a robust set
of applications including 3-D cryo TEM and SEM applications and nanoparticle
characterization and analysis .

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, RoboDesign International, Inc.

Contact
Tommy Bui
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
E: info@robodesign.

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actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.

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RoboDesign, as the newest subsidiary of Rigaku/MSC, Inc. Please also refer to our Form 10-K, Forms 10-Q,
Forms 8 -K and other filings with the U.

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