Applied Biosystems Group and Celera Group Second Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results and Conference Call Scheduled for January 25, 2007.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Applera Corporation announced today that it will issue fiscal 2007 second quarter results for its Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI) and Celera Group (NYSE:CRA) on Thursday, January 25, 2007. Results are scheduled for release before the opening of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Tony L. White, Chief Executive Officer, Dennis L. Winger, Chief Financial Officer, and senior managers from the Corporation's businesses will lead a conference call the same day at 11:00 a.m. (ET) to discuss these results and other matters related to the businesses. The call will be formatted to focus on each of the Applera businesses separately. The Applied Biosystems Group portion of the call will start at 11:00 a.m. (ET). The Celera Group portion of the call will start at 11:45 a.m. (ET), or immediately following the end of the Applied Biosystems portion of the call, if later.

During each segment, the management team will make prepared remarks and answer questions from securities analysts and investment professionals. Investors, securities analysts, representatives of the media and other interested parties who would like to participate should dial 617.614.4929 and enter passcode 68364489 at any time from 10:45 a.m. until the end of the call. This conference call will also be webcast. Interested parties who wish to listen to the webcast should visit the "Investors & Media" section of either www.applera.com or www.celera.com, or the "Investors" section of www.appliedbiosystems.com. A digital recording will be available approximately two hours after the completion of the conference call on January 25 until February 12, 2007. Interested parties should call 617.801.6888 and enter passcode 60406572.

Applera also encourages stockholders to submit questions for management consideration by e-mail in advance of the conference call. Such questions, which should be brief and reasonably related to the releases, may be submitted to [e-mail].

About Applera Corporation

Applera Corporation consists of two operating groups. The Applied Biosystems Group serves the life science industry and research community by developing and marketing instrument-based systems, consumables, software, and services. Customers use these tools to analyze nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), small molecules, and proteins to make scientific discoveries and develop new pharmaceuticals. Applied Biosystems' products also serve the needs of some markets outside of life science research, which we refer to as "applied markets," such as the fields of: human identity testing (forensic and paternity testing); biosecurity, which refers to products needed in response to the threat of biological terrorism and other malicious, accidental, and natural biological dangers; and quality and safety testing, for example in food and the environment. Applied Biosystems is headquartered in Foster City, CA, and reported sales of $1.9 billion during fiscal 2006. The Celera Group is primarily a molecular diagnostics business that is using proprietary genomics and proteomics discovery platforms to identify and validate novel diagnostic markers, and is developing diagnostic products based on these markers as well as other known markers. Celera maintains a strategic alliance with Abbott for the development and commercialization of molecular, or nucleic acid-based, diagnostic products, and it is also developing new diagnostic products outside of this alliance. Through its genomics and proteomics research efforts, Celera is also discovering and validating therapeutic targets, and it is seeking strategic partnerships to develop therapeutic products based on these discovered targets. Information about Applera Corporation, including reports and other information filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at http://www.applera.com, or by telephoning 800.762.6923.

Copyright[c] 2007. Applera Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Applied Biosystems, AB (Design), and Celera are registered trademarks, and Applera and Celera are trademarks of Applera Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or certain other countries.