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"When a telecommunications company launches a new enhanced service
for wireless customers, it's nearly impossible to predict adoption and
corresponding volumes. ROCKVILLE, Md. Epstein, Ph. http://www.
http://web. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was
established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. Areas in this program include
molecular evolution, theoretical neurobiology, computational molecular
biology, astrophysics , limits to knowledge, and marine science among others.
"Using the Affymetrix microarrays, we can scan a whole genome for genetic
variation in just 24 to 48 hours. Prior to this technology, it would have
been inconceivable to genotype hundreds of patient samples., with manufacturing facilities in
Sacramento, Calif.

All statements in this press release that are not historical are
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act as amended, including statements regarding Affymetrix'
"expectations," "beliefs," "hopes," "intentions ," "strategies" or the like.

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MIT. Sloan Foundation
Alfred P., then president and chief
executive officer of the General Motors Corporation.
http://www.

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Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that
simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure.egenera .
"The field of synthetic genomics has the potential for groundbreaking
scientific advances , including the development of alternative energy sources,
and the production of new vaccines and pharmaceuticals," stated J. "Synthetic
genomics has the potential to enable significant societal , environmental, and
medical benefits and with this study we are trying to help ensure that
outcome ," noted Dr.
Endy, an assistant professor in MIT's Biological Engineering Division and co-
founder of the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group.
The study, expected to be completed by July 2006 , will include a series of
workshops analyzing technological and societal concerns.

Harvard Medical School - Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics to Launch Major Genotyping Study in Atherosclerosis with Affymetrix Technology

The Reynolds Foundation is funding this study.

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We believe that Affymetrix GeneChip
technology, including our new upcoming Mapping 500K arrays, will help
researchers at HPCGG and elsewhere to make discoveries that directly benefit
patients," said Greg Yap, Vice President, DNA Products, Affymetrix.

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If projections are too high,
money is wasted on underutilized servers," noted Tony Klockenbrink,
director, telecom sector , Egenera. The Egenera
BladeFrame product family simplifies the datacenter with an innovative
server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and
enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements.csis.org

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT is an educational and research university located in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Affymetrix expressly disclaims any obligation or
undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any
forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in
Affymetrix' expectations with regard thereto or any change in events,
conditions, or circumstances on which any such statements are based.

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Business Editors /High-Tech Editors

MARLBORO, Mass." As a group of trained IT professionals, Infocom
is contributing to building and developing a society with a rich sense
of humanity through its IT capability and creativity. Market-leading
enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to
run their most important business applications and achieve higher
resource utilization, faster application time-to-market, and lower
total cost of ownership. Craig
Venter, Ph.
"The Affymetrix microarray system will be a key component of the Harvard
Medical School -- Partners HealthCare lab bench-to -bedside continuum, which
integrates genetics and genomics data into clinical decision support., Scientific Director of the HPCGG. Affymetrix
is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. The company maintains important sales
and marketing operations in Europe and Asia and has about 900 employees
worldwide.

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Egenera Inc. and Infocom Corporation Announce Distributor Agreement; Infocom to Resell Egenera BladeFrame System to Communications Service Providers in Japan

"

About Infocom

With a corporate philosophy of "contributing to the realization of
a society with a rich sense of humanity through outstanding IT
capability and creativity," Infocom aims to realize an "Information
Everywhere Society. Together with a
large panel of serum markers from the Women's Health Study, this will bring us
a lot closer to understanding the genetic contribution to inflammation and
cardiovascular disease, and predicting who may or may not be at risk.D. The Women's Health Study is under the overall
direction of Dr.

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"A leader in the Japanese marketplace, Infocom combines
significant expertise in telecommunications technologies with hosting
capabilities and professional services to deliver unique value to
customers," said Haruyoshi Iida, president of Egenera Japan and Asia
Pacific.

If the projection is too low, service levels
suffer and customers are dissatisfied.mit., Director of Genotyping for HPCGG. In addition to supporting HPCGG research, the new
Affymetrix technology will further strengthen the HPCGG core facilities
supporting the broader research community with genomic and other high
throughput services.

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We look forward to
further collaborations designed to benefit Infocom's premier
customers.com

Egenera, Egenera stylized logos and BladeFrame are registered
trademarks of Egenera, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Funded by a $570,060 grant from the Alfred P.D. The
Center has extensive experience examining issues at the intersection of
science and security, analyzing and mitigating terrorist threats, and
combating weapons of mass destruction. The Foundation provides
support in selected areas of research that are of scientific significance and
where its support can make a difference. Co-investigators in this
project include Paul Ridker, M.

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Major New Policy Study Will Explore Risks Benefits of Synthetic Genomics

Friedman, Ph.
"The project will serve as a model for policy makers, scientists, and
engineers who are evaluating potential 'dual-use' research," commented Dr. Epstein, of the Homeland Security Program at CSIS. Study results,
including a suite of evaluated policy options, will be reported in numerous
scientific and policy journals and will be disseminated broadly to the public., the Venter Institute is home to approximately 200 staff and
scientists with expertise in human and evolutionary biology , genetics,
bioinformatics/informatics, information technology, high-throughput DNA
sequencing , genomic and environmental policy research, and communications., Today, the Harvard Medical School - Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics
and Genomics (HPCGG) and Affymetrix, Inc.

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Sloan Foundation , the multi-
organization effort will engage scientists and policymakers to better
understand the potential risks and benefits associated with synthetic
genomics.
"The scientific and security communities have the responsibility to
prepare for the opportunities and misuse that may arise from any new
technology," noted Dr. Craig Venter Institute is a not-for-profit research institute
dedicated to the advancement of the science of genomics; the understanding of
its implications for society; and communication of those results to the
scientific community, the public, and policymakers.D.
Dr.

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Infocom will resell the Egenera(R) BladeFrame(R) system across
the Japanese market, with a strong focus on communications service
providers. More information is available at www.
All other company and product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders. The Affymetrix technology will allow HPCGG researchers to
investigate at an unprecedented scale the genetic origins of atherosclerosis,
a condition where the arteries become clogged. More than 1,200 patient samples
will be examined and will come from the Women's Health Study, an ongoing
10-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study of cardiovascular
events in 38,000 women.

About Affymetrix
Affymetrix scientists invented the world's first high-density microarray
in 1989 and began selling the first commercial microarray in 1994.

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Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital
(BWH). High-density GeneChip microarrays interrogate hundreds of
thousands of SNP markers per individual for less than one cent per genotype. Affymetrix technology is used by the world's top
pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies as well as leading
academic, government and not-for-profit research institutes.

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"Already, Egenera and Infocom have delivered effective joint
solutions to communications service providers.

About Egenera Inc .
Craig Venter Institute (Venter Institute), the Center for Strategic +
International Studies (CSIS), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), announced a new project to examine the societal implications of
synthetic genomics, a new field involving the development of viruses and cells
using designed and engineered DNA.D.org

The Center combines world-class scientific talent with access to a
population of over 2 million patients and their physicians, providing a
continuum of resources and expertise to rapidly translate scientific
discoveries into treatments that benefit the patient.

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Venter., of CSIS, and Drew Endy, Ph. It has
provided world leaders with strategic insights on -- and practical policy
solutions to -- current and emerging global issues for over 40 years.

, and SANTA CLARA, Calif. Julie Buring, also of BWH.

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, a
global leader in utility computing, today announced that it has
entered into a distributor agreement with Infocom Corporation of
Japan.

D. The study is jointly directed by Robert M.D. More than 1,000
systems have been installed around the world and nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed
papers have been published using the technology.

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"The Egenera BladeFrame system's
unique ability to provision servers dynamically in response to
changing volumes --as well as its built-in high availability--make it
ideally suited for enhanced services. We are pleased that a quality
company such as Infocom is bringing this unique value proposition to
customers in the Japanese market., of the
Venter Institute, Gerald L. Founded by J. Craig
Venter, Ph.
Affymetrix arrays enable scientists to search the human genome and
identify genes contributing to complex diseases, such as atherosclerosis,
cancer and asthma.

About the Harvard/Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics
HPCGG is a joint enterprise between Harvard Medical School and Partners
HealthCare System, dedicated to accelerating the realization of personalized
medicine by discovering and integrating genetic knowledge into the healthcare
system. Since then,
Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology has become the industry standard in
molecular biology research.

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The 15-month study will explore the risks
and benefits of this emerging technology, as well as possible safeguards to
prevent abuse, including bioterrorism., founder and president of the Venter Institute.
The Venter Institute is a 501 (c)(3) organization. The CSIS staff includes more than 120
analysts working to address the changing dynamics of international security
and economics. Its five schools and one
college encompass 34 academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting
programs, as well as numerous interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and
programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.edu/

Alfred P. Use of
the microarrays in the HPCGG core technology facilities will make this and
other large scale gene-disease association studies possible," said David
Kwiatkowski, M. Affymetrix' patented
photolithographic manufacturing process provides the most information capacity
available today on an array, enabling researchers to use a whole-genome
approach to analyze the relationship between genetics and health. These and other risk
factors are discussed in Affymetrix' Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2003 and other SEC reports , including its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for
subsequent quarterly periods.

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By transforming 80 percent of
the I/O devices on a legacy server into software, the BladeFrame
enables datacenters to speed time to market, easily scale applications
up or down based on immediate requirements, and provide cost-effective
high availability. The company has
six primary businesses: mobile Internet , life sciences, info-commerce,
knowledge management, enterprise and datacenter., Egenera has
offices worldwide. The information in this
document is subject to change without notice.

In addition, a
meeting including policymakers, scientists, and the media will be conducted to
discuss oversight, governance, and monitoring issues.sloan., Ph. Dr. Kucherlapati added that such
tests form the foundation of personalized medicine approaches that HPCGG is
seeking to advance -- the ability to select the best treatment for the
individual patient based on his or her genetic profile. The Center is among a handful of early access sites that
will start applying these new Affymetrix arrays to study real-world disease. The Center also operates full-service
genetic clinics for patients with known or suspected genetic conditions, and
core facilities and services for genetic study design , DNA sequencing,
genotyping, proteomics, bioinformatics and microarrays., and Bedford, Mass.

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http: //www.venterinstitute. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Kwiatkowski is also a principal investigator within the Donald W.D.

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, Today three organizations, the J.D.org

Center for Strategic + International Studies
CSIS is an independent, nonpartisan policy research organization. (Nasdaq: AFFX) announced an
agreement that will provide HPCGG with early access to next-generation
Affymetrix GeneChip (R) Human Mapping microarrays capable of scanning up to
500,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs ), or variations of DNA sequence
in the human genome., Director of the Center for Cardiovascular
Disease Prevention at BWH. Through its educational
programs at Harvard Medical School and other academic institutions, the Center
has created the infrastructure to educate the medical profession on
personalized medicine approaches.

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Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass.

J. Craig Venter Institute
The J.
The substantial cost savings compared with currently available methods is
making this atherosclerosis study, as well as other large-scale studies,
cost-effective for the first time.
Discoveries of gene-disease associations can be rapidly translated into
clinical diagnostic tests by our team of researchers and clinicians, bringing
benefits to the patient in months rather than years," said Raju Kucherlapati,
Ph.
Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially for Affymetrix from those projected, including,
but not limited to risks of the Company's ability to achieve and sustain
higher levels of revenue, higher gross margins , reduced operating expenses,
uncertainties relating to technological approaches, manufacturing, product
development (including uncertainties relating to the use of the 500K array and
outcome of the research project with HPCGG discussed in this press release),
personnel retention, uncertainties related to cost and pricing of Affymetrix
products, dependence on collaborative partners, uncertainties relating to sole
source suppliers, uncertainties relating to FDA and other regulatory
approvals , competition, risks relating to intellectual property of others and
the uncertainties of patent protection and litigation.

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The early access arrangement with Affymetrix exemplifies HPCGG's
flexibility in adopting new technologies with the rigorous quality controls of
a production facility.

NOTE: Affymetrix, the Affymetrix logo, and GeneChip are registered
trademarks owned or used by Affymetrix, Inc.

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The Egenera BladeFrame system's unique Processing Area Network
(PAN) architecture gives Infocom a proven platform for bringing
enhanced services to the telco market.D. The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate
students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best
serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
"From world-class research , to access to a major physician network serving
over 2 million patients, HPCGG has the resources needed to start translating
genomic results into better health care.
The research is expected to begin when the 500K arrays become available
under a limited release Early Access program in the first half of 2005.

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