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GE Healthcare Enters into a Worldwide OEM Supply Agreement with Alpha Innotech Corporation
Alpha Innotech Corporation today announced that it has entered into a significant license and supply agreement with GE Healthcare. Under the terms of the agreement, Alpha Innotech will develop, manufacture and supply a full line of proprietary imaging systems to GE Healthcare. The products will be sold exclusively worldwide under the GE brand in the life science research market.

Haseeb Chaudhry, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Innotech, said today, "This alliance with GE Healthcare will make our digital imaging systems available to the broader scientific community for life science research and drug discovery markets."

"GE Healthcare has the leading range of sophisticated laser scanning systems and supplies most of the reagents and media that would be imaged in a CCD system. This partnership completes our portfolio of imaging products. Researchers can now move between imaging modalities, but use familiar reagents and software. Alpha Innotech was chosen because its focus on company values and product performance complement our own," said Keiko Hattori, Head of Global Marketing for Discovery Systems, GE Healthcare.

"Alpha Innotech's digital imaging systems are a good fit with GE Healthcare's DNA and protein electrophoresis products. Combining GE Healthcare's expertise in biological applications and worldwide market reach with Alpha Innotech's expertise in imaging technologies will provide researchers with complete integrated products for their unique research applications," stated Sia Ghazvini, Vice President for Business Development at Alpha Innotech.

About Alpha Innotech Corporation

Alpha Innotech Corporation is a supplier of innovative solutions for life science and drug discovery with core expertise in quantitative imaging, informatics, and molecular biology. Alpha Innotech maintains its corporate offices in San Leandro, CA and has customers served by a direct sales force and distributors located in over 40 countries around the world. In December 2004, Alpha Innotech entered into a merger agreement with Xtrana, Inc (OTCBB:XTRN). For more information about Alpha Innotech, visit our website at www.alphainnotech.com

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring and life support systems, disease research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping physicians detect disease earlier and to tailor personalized treatments for patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of products and services that are improving productivity in healthcare and enhancing patient care by enabling healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.


Alpha Innotech Corporation
President
Darryl Ray, 510-483-9620
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or
GE Healthcare
Communications Manager
Jean Leu, 732-457-8082
[e-mail]