Press Release

SciGene Opens its Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California

January 12, 2004, Sunnyvale, CA — SciGene announced today the opening of its new, fully equipped 5,000 s.f. facility in Sunnyvale, CA. With a mix of office, assembly and warehouse space, all Company operations will be housed at this location where product lines recently acquired from Robbins Scientific will be manufactured and supported.

According to President Jim Stanchfield, Ph.D., “With the opening of our new facility and the hire of engineers and technical staff formerly at Robbins, we have hit the ground running with full scale manufacturing and support services available in January.”

About SciGene
SciGene (www.scigene.com) is a privately held company founded in 2003 following the acquisition of several product lines used in genomics and drug discovery research from Robbins Scientific. SciGene develops, manufactures and markets laboratory systems for microarray processing and high throughput chemical synthesis at its new facility in Sunnyvale, CA.