BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2006--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI - News), a global technology leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, announced today a five-year agreement with the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, to help expand neonatal screening for genetic diseases in seven of China’s least economically developed provinces. The program, which begins this year, is part of the Chinese Ministry of Health’s Sino-Finnish Neonatal Screening Cooperation project.
