Today's Morning Top Gainers (HNSN,FFBC,CUR,PER,CHIP)

VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ: CHIP) is among the top percentage gainers in morning trade and surged 225% to $3.73 on huge volume of 12.78 million shares after VeriChip and its development partner RECEPTORS LLC, announced today that VeriChip has been granted an exclusive license to RECEPTORS' Patent No. 7,504,364 titled “Methods of Making Arrays and Artificial Receptors” and Patent No. 7,469,076 “Sensors Employing Combinatorial Artificial Receptors,” in their application to the development of the virus triage detection system for the H1N1 virus.

Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) rallied 65.27% on 50.78 million shares and now trades at $29.60 Dell agreed to acquire Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion, or $30 per share.

Neuralstem, Inc. (AMEX: CUR) is also moving higher by 27.27% to $2.38 on 4.38 million shares after it announced that the U.S. FDA has approved its Investigational New Drug application to commence a Phase I trial to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) with its spinal cord stem cells.

First Financial Bancorp (NASDAQ: FFBC) soared 23% now trades at $10.23 on an unusual volume of 1.25 million shares after First Financial Bancorp announced after the close Friday that its subsidiary, First Financial Bank N.A., agreed to acquire the banking operations of Irwin Union Bank and Trust Company and Irwin Union Bank, F.S.B.

Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN) jumped up 41% to $4.41 on massive volume of 1.42 million shares after has received U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its next generation Sensei(R) X Robotic Catheter System and it introduced the Artisan Extend(TM) Control Catheter. The company also introduced the Lynx(TM) Robotic Ablation Catheter, a small, flexible irrigated ablation catheter for customers in Europe.