Protein pre cast gels from DGel Electrosystems

Montreal, Canada, January 5th, 2007 –

Dgel Electrosystems, a manufacturer of innovative products for proteomic research, including a new generation of pre cast gels for protein and nucleic acid electrophoresis today announced that they signed an distribution agreement with Nippon Genetics Europe GmbH in Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, Nippon Genetics Europe GmbH received the exclusive distribution rights for Europe and Japan.

The new generation of pre cast gels, called ID gels (www.idgel.com ) have several features for our customers worldwide, said Pierre Sevigny, CSO of DGel Electrosystems. Pre cast gels have to be as convenient as possible and we learned a lot from the needs and complaints many customers described us.

The market of pre cast gels for proteomic research is growing very rapidly during the last five years, Dr. Juergen Luenzer, Managing Director from Nippon Genetics Europe said. Actually one of the biggest hurdle is a competitive pricing and we can compare the situation with NAP kits ten years ago. If it will be possible to offer a consumer friendly high quality pre cast gels, we assume that a lot customer will think about to use pre cast gels in the future. Almost nobody is doing a CsCl centrifugation today because the development of anion exchanger and spin columns, a more competitive pricing and convenience has become successful. We know Mr. Sevigny a long time and we recognized his long term experience and knowledge about these products. We are very optimistic about this cooperation and the possibilities to market these innovative products.

About DGel Electrosystems:

Founded in 2006, DGel Electrosystem is a Canadian company reengineering laboratory products to make them simple to use, up-to-date and more cost effective. The company team has extensive experience in separation technologies and electrophoresis The company main activity is concentrated on separation and detection technologies, on nucleic acid and protein electrophoresis. The current project uses a technological breakthrough to develop and commercialize two-dimensional (2D) electrophoresis as an easy and cost effective technology. This project includes the development of a new line of precast gels called IDGel™, a plastic cassette filled with polyacrylamide gel. Its worldwide market entry is planned through DGel distributors.

About Nippon Genetics:

Nippon Genetics, with offices in Japan, the US and Germany is a Japanese distribution company which focuses on marketing and sales of products for the Life Science community. We started our operation in 1988 and our offices in Japan are located in Tokyo and Kyoto. Our customers are researchers all over Japan working at universities and research institutes, pharmaceutical and biotech companies or clinical labs.

In 2005 we started our office in Germany. Besides a better support for our main suppliers all over Europe and the possibility to find new innovative Biotech companies in Europe, we also want to introduce innovative products from Asia or other countries into the European market.