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Sionex to Exhibit its microDMx™ Sensor Technology at a National Science Foundation Briefing

Sionex One of Four Companies Invited to Exhibit MEMS Technology at a Briefing on "Sensors: Buildings, Battlefields and Beyond".

WALTHAM, Mass., September 29, 2004 - Sionex Corporation, a high technology company focused on commercializing breakthrough chemical sensor chips and systems based on its proprietary microDMx™ detection technology, today announced that it has been invited by the National Science Foundation and National Academies to exhibit at a briefing being held tomorrow, Thursday, September 30 in Washington D.C., on the latest developments in micro-sensor technologies. Reservation details for the briefing can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/sensors/events.htm.

Sponsored by the ACS Science and the Congress Project, ASM International and the National Science Foundation, the briefing, entitled, "Sensors: Buildings, Battlefields and Beyond", is focused on a number of different, new sensor technologies that can be used in a wide range of activities such as military use to invisibly prowl hostile territory or as wireless networks of chemical detectors that can monitor airborne pollution.

microDMx™ Detector Technology

Conceived at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and exclusively licensed to Sionex for commercialization the microDMx sensor is a chip-based microfabricated technology capable of detecting a wide variety of chemical and biological compounds with unsurpassed sensitivity and selectivity.

Sionex is currently working with a number of partners and collaborators to incorporate its microDMx technology into a wide variety of devices for the detection of chemical & biological agents, explosives, toxic industrial compounds and narcotics.

Commercially, Sionex provides its microDMx platforms and technology to partner companies who develop products for a wide variety of end-user applications ranging from handheld devices and control components to detection modules. The first of these partnerships to be announced was with Varian, Inc., as a detector for the Varian CP-4900 micro GC which is being used for a number of applications in the petrochemical, natural gas, environmental, and industrial markets.

About Sionex Corporation
Sionex Corporation is a high technology company focused on commercializing breakthrough chemical and biological sensor chips and systems based on its proprietary microDMx™ detection technology. Sionex maintains its worldwide headquarters and laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts, close to Boston with its commercial, technology and communications infrastructure. The Company is privately held and was founded in 2001 with patented technology exclusively licensed from The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Additional information about Sionex Corporation is available at www.sionex.com.

microDMx™ is a US trademark of Sionex Corporation.

EDITORIAL CONTACTS:

Eric Kirleis, Sionex Corporation
(781) 457-5416
ekirleis@sionex.com

Agency Contact:
Doug Forsyth, Alchymia Communications for Sionex
(541) 482-8744
df@alchymiacomm.com

Forward-looking Statement
Some statements in this announcement constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Sionex Corporation to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements included in this announcement will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of this information should not be regarded as a representation by the Company or any other person that the objectives and plans of the Company will be achieved.