As part of the 'Think Adoption First' effort, PETCO, with
the help of Petfinder.com offers a searchable database of adoptable
companion animals.

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Genaissance Will Provide Genotyping Services for Cyprus Scrapie Contract

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(Logo: http://www."
PETCO's Chief Executive Officer James Myers said, "We have a long history
of supporting animal welfare and adoptions and we're broadening that
philosophy with our 'Think Adoption First' program.com
Petfinder.

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, Genaissance
Pharmaceuticals, Inc .org. It operates over 730 stores in 47 states and the
District of Columbia and is a leading destination for on-line pet food and
supplies at http://www.

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, Executive Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer of Genaissance. PETCO stores also offer for sale small mammal,
reptiles and birds and as well as these species plus dogs and cats for
adoption in cooperation with animal shelters and rescue groups.

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PETCO's adoption promotion program should
directly link people with animals in need and address the problems associated
with homeless animals, and we congratulate PETCO on developing this innovative
idea and aggressively implementing it.com is the nation's largest and oldest online adoption
community.

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About Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

HSUS PETCO Showcase 'Think Adoption First' at 'Animal Care Expo' Event With Leaders of U.S. Animal Welfare Community

The goal of the
conference is to provide educational workshops and training on related animal
welfare topics and to exhibit the latest products and services for the animal
welfare industry.
HSUS President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne Pacelle said, "We're
extremely pleased to showcase PETCO's 'Think Adoption First' program at our
annual Animal Care Expo conference."
At this week's HSUS Animal Care Expo, PETCO, the PETCO Foundation, and
Petfinder.
The non-profit HSUS is a mainstream voice for animals, with active programs in
companion animals and equine protection, wildlife and habitat protection,
animals in research and farm animals and sustainable agriculture.

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com adoption partners found homes for
more than 1.

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Scientists have identified forms of a sheep gene that may determine
a sheep's susceptibility to being infected with scrapie.genaissance.newscom.

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About Petfinder. Working with more than 8,500 active animal welfare organizations
across the country, Petfinder.

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ATLANTA, The Humane Society of the
United States (HSUS) today joined the nation's leading pet specialty retailer
PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.
PETCO store associates have received information on how to promote the
'Think Adoption First' philosophy so they can properly suggest adoption first
when customers express interest in adding a companion animal to their home.

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Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease affecting the central nervous
system of sheep and goats .S."
Antisel A. Such statements are subject to certain factors, risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results, events and performance to differ
materially from those referred to in such statements, including, but not
limited to, Genaissance's ability to fund its drug development efforts , the
extent to which genetic markers (haplotypes) are predictive of clinical
outcomes and drug efficacy and safety, the attraction of new business and
strategic partners, the adoption of the Company 's technologies by the
pharmaceutical industry, the acceptance of the Company's cardiac tests by
health care providers, the timing and success of clinical trials, competition
from pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics companies, the strength of
the Company's intellectual property rights and those risks identified in the
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005, filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2005, and in other filings
the Company makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to
time. in announcing the retailer's 'Think Adoption
First' program at the 14th annual 'Animal Care Expo' in Atlanta. The HSUS protects all
animals through education, investigation, litigation, legislation, advocacy,
and fieldwork.

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, Genaissance 's distributor in Greece,
Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, represented
Genaissance in obtaining the contract. is developing innovative products based
on its proprietary pharmacogenomic technology and has a revenue-generating
business in DNA and pharmacogenomic products and services .
For more information on Genaissance, visit the Company's website at:
http://www.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements about the expected growth and development of Genaissance's
business, such as Genaissance's ability to effectively complete its vilazodone
and clozapine programs, detect associations between clinical outcomes and
genetic variation, the ability to assess how genetic variation can affect drug
response, efforts to build a drug candidate pipeline, the timing and outcome
of its genetic testing programs and the ability of Genaissance to apply its
technologies to the development, marketing and prescribing of drugs and
Genaissance's ability to detect associations between clinical outcomes and
genetic variation.

The organization is based in Washington and has field
representatives across the country.

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com.petco. Since its
inception in 1999, the PETCO Foundation, PETCO's non-profit organization, has
raised more than $22 million in support of more than 2,600 non-profit
grassroots animal welfare organizations around the nation.

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Vovis, Ph. Selidis Bros. The Company's lead
therapeutic product, vilazodone for depression, is in Phase II of development. The forward-looking statements contained herein represent the judgment
of Genaissance as of the date of this release.5 million members and constituents.

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Under the terms of the contract, Biotronics will collect the tissue specimens
from the Veterinary Services and send them to Genaissance's genotyping
facility in New Haven, CT, where Genaissance will analyze a minimum of
100,000 samples over approximately a three-month period of time. "We were recently awarded a contract to
provide similar services to the Greek government and have been providing these
same services for over a year now to the U.
Over 1,300 grassroots animal welfare representatives from the animal care,
control, sheltering and rescue communities from all 50 states and 26 foreign
countries are in Atlanta this week attending the annual educational and
product exposition conference sponsored by the HSUS.

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Genaissance also
markets its proprietary FAMILION(TM) Test, designed to detect mutations
responsible for causing Familial Long QT and Brugada Syndromes, two causes of
sudden cardiac death.

About PETCO (Nasdaq: PETC)
PETCO , established in 1965, is a leading specialty retailer of premium pet
food, supplies and services .

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com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030603/PETCOLOGO)
Through the 'Think Adoption First' program, PETCO, the PETCO Foundation
and Petfinder. PETCO does not sell dogs or cats, and for
nearly 40 years has worked with shelters to find homes for millions of
adoptable animals.

About HSUS
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest animal
protection organization with more than 8.5 million animals, making it the nation's largest animal adoption
organization.

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(Nasdaq: GNSC) announced today that it will provide its
high-throughput genotyping services to Biotronics Ltd.D . This strategy is designed to
enable Genaissance to leverage existing clinical data and, thus, reduce the
costs and risks associated with traditional drug development and increase the
probability of clinical success and commercialization.com, the company's online partner, will encourage customers to
consider adoption as the first option when thinking about adding a new
companion animal to their homes.com's searchable database, will also reach out to
placement groups and shelters that offer small mammals, reptiles and birds for
adoption, in an effort to help find families for all homeless animals as well
as resources for customers interested in these species.com. Last year, Petfinder.

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There is no scientific evidence to indicate that
scrapie possesses a risk to human health , but the disease has serious economic
consequences for sheep producers whose flocks become infected with the
disease. Genaissance disclaims any
obligation to update any forward-looking statement .

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- Increases Presence in EU Ag Genotyping Market -

NEW HAVEN, Conn. HSUS
opposes keeping all non-domesticated animals as pets. PETCO's vision is to best promote, through its
people , the highest level of well being for companion animals, and to support
the human-animal bond.

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"We are delighted that we will be providing genotyping services to another
EU country," said Gerald F. Department of Agriculture, under
its National Scrapie Eradication Program. The Company's product development strategy is focused on
drug candidates with promising clinical profiles and finding genetic markers
to identify a responsive patient population.

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A. PETCO will encourage
customers to seek adoptable animals in the community as a first option,
providing informational resource centers and in-store adoption opportunities
to a larger variety of rescue groups. Think Adoption First is the right thing to do, and we are
absolutely committed to making this work, to the benefit of adoptable animals
and our community animal welfare partners.

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, headquartered in
Nicosia, Cyprus, which has been awarded a contract by the Veterinary Services
in the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources + Environment as part of
Cyprus' efforts to implement the European Union's (EU) mandate for
establishing a breeding program in sheep that confers resistance to scrapie. It is on the web at hsus.

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We will , simply put,
recommend adoption before purchase of any animal at our more than 730 stores
across the county.com are encouraging animal welfare groups to join in the adoption
effort.