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Bylaws

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Helix BioMedix, Inc.

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2001

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                                     BYLAWS

OF
HELIX BIOMEDIX, INC.


PREAMBLE

These Bylaws are subject to, and governed by, the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware ("DGCL") and the Certificate of Incorporation (the
"Certificate of Incorporation") of Helix BioMedix, Inc. (the "Corporation"). In
the event of a direct conflict between the provisions of these Bylaws and the
mandatory provisions of the DGCL or the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation, such provisions of the DGCL and the Certificate of Incorporation,
as the case may be, will be controlling.


ARTICLE I

OFFICES AND RECORDS

SECTION 1.1. REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT. The registered office and
registered agent of the Corporation shall be as designated from time to time by
the appropriate filing by the Corporation in the office of the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware.

SECTION 1.2. OTHER OFFICES. The Corporation may also have offices at such
other places, both within and without the State of Delaware, as the Board of
Directors of the Corporation (the "Board of Directors") may from time to time
determine or the business of the Corporation may require.

SECTION 1.3. BOOKS AND RECORDS. The books and records of the Corporation
may be kept at the Corporation's principal executive office or at such other
locations as may from time to time be designated by the Board of Directors.
Consents and notices may be received in the form of electronic communications
provided that they are reproduced in paper form and delivered to the
Corporation's principal executive office unless otherwise provided in the
Certificate of Formation or the DGCL. The use of reproductions of consents
including, but not limited to copies, faxes, and other reliable reproductions,
may be used in lieu of the original writing for any and all purposes for which
the original writing could be used, provided the reproduction is a complete
reproduction of the entire original writing pursuant to the DGCL.


ARTICLE II

MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

SECTION 2.1. ANNUAL MEETINGS. An annual meeting of the Corporation's
stockholders (the "Stockholders") shall be held each calendar year for the
purposes of (i) electing directors as provided in Article III and (ii)
transacting such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Each annual meeting shall be held on such date (no later than 13 months after
the date of the last annual meeting of Stockholders) and at such time as shall
be designated by the

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Board of Directors and stated in the notice or waivers of notice of such
meeting.

SECTION 2.2. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the Stockholders, for
any purpose or purposes, may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board
(if any) or the Chief Executive Officer and shall be called by the Secretary at
the written request, or by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote, of a
majority of the total number of directors which the Corporation would have if
there were no vacancies (the "Whole Board"), which request or resolution shall
fix the date, time and place, and state the purpose or purposes, of the proposed
meeting. Except as provided by applicable law, these Bylaws, or the Certificate
of Incorporation, Stockholders shall not be entitled to call a special meeting
of Stockholders or to require the Board of Directors or any officer to call such
a meeting or to propose business at such a meeting. Business transacted at any
special meeting of Stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the
notice or waivers of notice of such meeting.

SECTION 2.3. PLACE OF MEETINGS. The Board of Directors may designate the
place of meeting (either within or without the State of Delaware) for any
meeting of Stockholders. If no designation is made by the Board of Directors,
the place of meeting shall be held at the principal executive office of the
Corporation.

SECTION 2.4. NOTICE OF MEETINGS. (a) Written or electronic notice of each
meeting of Stockholders shall be delivered to each Stockholder of record
entitled to vote thereat, which notice shall (i) state the place, date and time
of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes
for which the meeting is called and (ii) be given not less than 10 nor more than
60 days before the date of the meeting.

(b) Each notice of a meeting of Stockholders shall be given as
provided in Section 9.1, except that if no address appears on the Corporation's
books or stock transfer records with respect to any Stockholder, notice to such
Stockholder shall be deemed to have been given if sent by first-class mail or
telecommunication to the Corporation's principal executive office or if
published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county
where such principal executive office is located.

(c) If any notice addressed to a Stockholder at the address of such
Stockholder appearing on the books of the Corporation is returned to the
Corporation by the United States Postal Service marked to indicate that the
United States Postal Service is unable to deliver the notice to the Stockholder
at such address, all further notices to such Stockholder at such address shall
be deemed to have been duly given without further mailing if the same shall be
available to such Stockholder upon written demand of such Stockholder at the
principal executive office of the Corporation for a period of one year from the
date of the giving of such notice.

(d) Any previously scheduled meeting of the Stockholders may be
postponed by resolution of the Board of Directors upon public notice given prior
to the time previously scheduled for such meeting.

SECTION 2.5. VOTING LIST. At least 10 days before each meeting of
Stockholders, the Secretary or other officer or agent of the Corporation who has
charge of the Corporation's stock

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ledger shall prepare a complete list of the Stockholders entitled to vote at
such meeting, arranged in alphabetical order and showing, with respect to each
Stockholder, his address and the number of shares registered in his name. Such
list shall be open to the examination of any Stockholder, for any purpose
germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least
10 days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the
meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice or waivers
of notice of the meeting or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting
is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and
place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any
Stockholder who is present. The stock ledger of the Corporation shall be the
only evidence as to who are the Stockholders entitled to examine any list
required by this Section 2.5 or to vote at any meeting of Stockholders.

SECTION 2.6. QUORUM AND ADJOURNMENT. The holders of a majority of the
voting power of the outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote
generally in the election of directors (the "Voting Stock"), present in person
or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Stockholders, except as
otherwise provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these
Bylaws. If a quorum is present at any meeting of Stockholders, such quorum shall
not be broken by the withdrawal of enough Stockholders to leave less than a
quorum and the remaining Stockholders may continue to transact business until
adjournment. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of Stockholders,
the holders of a majority of the voting stock represented at such meeting or, if
no Stockholder entitled to vote is present at such meeting, any officer of the
Corporation may adjourn such meeting from time to time until a quorum shall be
present. Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, the chairman
of any meeting of Stockholders shall have the right, acting in his sole
discretion, to adjourn such meeting from time to time.

SECTION 2.7. ADJOURNED MEETINGS. When a meeting of Stockholders is
adjourned to another time or place, unless otherwise provided by these Bylaws,
notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof
are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken; provided,
however, if an adjournment is for more than 30 days or if after an adjournment a
new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned
meeting shall be given to each Stockholder entitled to vote thereat. At any
adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present in person or by proxy, the
Stockholders entitled to vote thereat may transact any business which might have
been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed.

SECTION 2.8. VOTING. (a) Election of directors at all meetings of
Stockholders at which directors are to be elected shall be by written ballot or
electronic communications and, except as otherwise provided in the Certificate
of Incorporation, a plurality of the votes cast thereat shall elect. Except as
otherwise provided by applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these
Bylaws, all matters other than the election of directors submitted to the
Stockholders at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast
with respect to such matter. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of
Incorporation or by applicable law, (i) no Stockholder shall have any right of
cumulative voting and (ii) each outstanding share, regardless of class, shall be
entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of
Stockholders.

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(b) Shares standing in the name of another corporation (whether
domestic or foreign) may be voted by such officer, agent or proxy as the bylaws
of such corporation may prescribe or, in the absence of such provision, as the
board of directors of such corporation may determine. Shares standing in the
name of a deceased person may be voted by the executor or administrator of such
deceased person, either in person or by proxy. Shares standing in the name of a
guardian, conservator, or trustee may be voted by such fiduciary, either in
person or by proxy, but no fiduciary shall be entitled to vote shares held in
such fiduciary capacity without a transfer of such shares into the name of such
fiduciary. Shares standing in the name of a receiver may be voted by such
receiver. A Stockholder whose shares are pledged shall be entitled to vote such
shares, unless in the transfer by the pledgor on the books of the Corporation he
has expressly empowered the pledgee to vote thereon, in which case only the
pledgee (or his proxy) may represent the stock and vote thereon.

(c) If shares or other securities having voting power stand of
record in the name of two or more persons (whether fiduciaries, members of a
partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, tenants by the entirety or
otherwise) or if two or more persons have the same fiduciary relationship
respecting the same shares, unless the Secretary is given written notice to the
contrary and is furnished with a copy of the instrument or order appointing them
or creating the relationship wherein it is so provided, their acts with respect
to voting shall have the following effect:

(i) if only one votes, his act binds all;

(ii) if more than one votes, the act of the majority so voting binds
all; and

(iii) if more than one votes but the vote is evenly split on any
particular matter, each faction may vote the securities in question
proportionately or any person voting the shares, or a beneficiary, (if
any) may apply to the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court as
may have jurisdiction to appoint an additional person to act with the
person so voting the shares, which shall then be voted as determined by a
majority such persons and the person so appointed by the court.

If the instrument so filed shows that any such tenancy is held in unequal
interests, a majority or even-split for the purpose of the paragraph (c) shall
be a majority or even-split in interest.

SECTION 2.9. PROXIES. (a) At any meeting of Stockholders, each Stockholder
having the right to vote thereat may be represented and vote either in person or
by proxy executed in writing by such Stockholder or by his duly authorized
attorney-in-fact. Each such proxy shall be filed with the Secretary of the
Corporation at or before the beginning of each meeting at which such proxy is to
be voted. Unless otherwise provided therein, no proxy shall be valid after three
years from the date of its execution. Each proxy shall be revocable unless
expressly provided therein to be irrevocable and coupled with an interest
sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power or unless otherwise made
irrevocable by applicable law.

(b) A proxy shall be deemed signed if the Stockholder's name is
placed on the proxy (whether by manual signature, telegraphic transmission or
otherwise) by the Stockholder

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or his attorney-in-fact. In the event any proxy shall designate two or more
persons to act as proxies, a majority of such persons present at the meeting
(or, if only one shall be present, then that one) shall have and may exercise
all the powers conferred by the proxy upon all the persons so designated unless
the proxy shall otherwise provide.

(c) Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, by the
Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws, the Board of Directors may, in
advance of any meeting of Stockholders, prescribe additional regulations
concerning the manner of execution and filing of proxies (and the validation of
same) which may be voted at such meeting.

SECTION 2.10. RECORD DATE. For the purpose of determining the Stockholders
entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of Stockholders (or any
adjournment thereof) or to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution
or allotment of any rights or to exercise any rights in respect of any change,
conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action,
the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not
precede the date on which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by
the Board of Directors or be more than 60 nor less than 10 days prior to the
date of such meeting nor more than 60 days prior to any other action. If no
record date is fixed, (i) the record date for determining Stockholders entitled
to notice of or to vote at a meeting of Stockholders shall be at the close of
business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given or, if
notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on
which the meeting is held and (ii) the record date for determining Stockholders
for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the
Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto. A determination of
Stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of
Stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however,
that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

SECTION 2.11. CONDUCT OF MEETINGS; AGENDA. (a) Meetings of the
Stockholders shall be presided over by the officer of the Corporation whose
duties under these Bylaws require him to do so; provided, however, if no such
officer of the Corporation shall be present at any meeting of Stockholders, such
meeting shall be presided over by a chairman to be chosen by a majority of the
Stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting who are present in person or by
proxy. At each meeting of Stockholders, the officer of the Corporation whose
duties under these Bylaws require him to do so shall act as secretary of the
meeting; provided, however, if no such officer of the Corporation shall be
present at any meeting of Stockholders, the chairman of such meeting shall
appoint a secretary. The order of business at each meeting of Stockholders shall
be as determined by the chairman of the meeting, including such regulation of
the manner of voting and the conduct of discussion as seems to him in order.

(b) The Board of Directors may, in advance of any meeting of
Stockholders, adopt an agenda for such meeting, adherence to which the chairman
of the meeting may enforce.

SECTION 2.12. INSPECTORS OF ELECTION; OPENING AND CLOSING OF POLLS. (a)
Before any meeting of Stockholders, the Board of Directors may, and if required
by law shall, appoint one or more persons to act as inspectors of election at
such meeting or any adjournment thereof. If any person appointed as inspector
fails to appear or fails or refuses to act, the chairman of the

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meeting may, and if required by law or requested by any Stockholder entitled to
vote or his proxy shall, appoint a substitute inspector. If no inspectors are
appointed by the Board of Directors, the chairman of the meeting may, and if
required by law or requested by any Stockholder entitled to vote or his proxy
shall, appoint one or more inspectors at the meeting. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, inspectors shall be appointed consistent with the mandatory
provisions of Section 231 of the DGCL.

(b) Inspectors may include individuals who serve the Corporation in
other capacities (including as officers, employees, agents or representatives);
provided, however, that no director or candidate for the office of director
shall act as an inspector. Inspectors need not be Stockholders.

(c) The inspectors shall (i) determine the number of shares of
capital stock of the Corporation outstanding and the voting power of each, the
number of shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum and the
validity and effect of proxies and (ii) receive votes or ballots, hear and
determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to
vote, count and tabulate all votes and ballots, determine the results and do
such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all
Stockholders. On request of the chairman of the meeting, the inspectors shall
make a report in writing of any challenge, request or matter determined by them
and shall execute a certificate of any fact found by them. The inspectors shall
have such other duties as may be prescribed by Section 231 of the DGCL.

(d) The chairman of the meeting may, and if required by the DGCL
shall, fix and announce at the meeting the date and time of the opening and the
closing of the polls for each matter upon which the Stockholders will vote at
the meeting.

SECTION 2.13. PROCEDURES FOR BRINGING BUSINESS BEFORE ANNUAL MEETINGS. (a)
Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, no business shall be
conducted at an annual meeting of Stockholders except in accordance with the
procedures hereinafter set forth in this Section 2.13; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section 2.13 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any
Stockholder of any business properly brought before any annual meeting of
Stockholders in accordance with such procedures.

(b) At any annual meeting of Stockholders, only such business shall
be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. To be
properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (i) specified in the
notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of
the Board of Directors, (ii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or
at the direction of the Board of Directors or (iii) properly brought before the
meeting by a Stockholder. In addition to any other applicable requirements, for
business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a Stockholder, the
Stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary.
To be timely, a Stockholder's notice must be delivered to or mailed and received
at the principal executive office of the Corporation not less than 120 days nor
more than 150 days in advance of the first anniversary of the date of the
Corporation's proxy statement released to Stockholders in connection with the
previous year's annual meeting of Stockholders; provided, however, that if no
annual meeting was held in the previous year or the date of the annual meeting
of Stockholders has been changed

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by more than 30 calendar days from the date contemplated at the time of the
previous year's proxy statement, the notice must be received by the Corporation
at least 80 days prior to the date the Corporation intends to distribute its
proxy statement with respect to such meeting. Any meeting of Stockholders which
is adjourned and will reconvene within 30 days after the meeting date as
originally noticed shall, for purposes of any Stockholder's notice contemplated
by this paragraph (b), be deemed to be a continuation of the original meeting,
and no business may be brought before such adjourned meeting by any Stockholder
unless timely notice of such business was given to the Secretary of the
Corporation for the meeting as originally noticed.

(c) Each notice given by a Stockholder as contemplated by paragraph (b)
above shall set forth, as to each matter the Stockholder proposes to bring
before the annual meeting, (i) the nature of the proposed business with
reasonable particularity, including the exact text of any proposal to be
presented for adoption and any supporting statement, which proposal and
supporting statement shall not in the aggregate exceed 500 words, and his
reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting, (ii) any material
interest of the Stockholder in such business, (iii) the name, principal
occupation and record address of the Stockholder, (iv) the class and number of
shares of the Corporation which are held of record or beneficially owned by the
Stockholder, (v) the dates upon which the Stockholder acquired such shares of
stock and documentary support for any claims of beneficial ownership and (vi)
such other matters as may be required by the Certificate of Incorporation.

(d) The foregoing right of a Stockholder to propose business for
consideration at an annual meeting of Stockholders shall be subject to such
conditions, restrictions and limitations as may be imposed by the Certificate of
Incorporation. Nothing in this Section 2.13 shall entitle any Stockholder to
propose business for consideration at any special meeting of Stockholders.

(e) The chairman of any meeting of Stockholders shall determine whether
business has been properly brought before the meeting and, if the facts so

 

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