Licensees Will Verify the DNA Content of Their Cotton on the Spot

STONY BROOK, NY. February 09, 2015 – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN), (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology, supply chain and product authentication solutions, announced today the launch of an On-Site DNA Authentication Program (On-Site) in response to the market need to provide faster reporting of DNA authentication at every step of the cotton textile supply chain, with the goal of ensuring quality assurance, controls and sourcing of raw materials or greige goods, prior to conversion into finished goods.

The patent-pending, On-Site Program includes the provision of a desktop-size PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) machine with consumables for testing, complete with supporting software, on-site training, guidance on chain-of-custody protocols, and online customer service support. APDN will consult with its licensees and its supply chain partners to ensure seamless program implementation.

Potential licensees will benefit from the program by having the On-Site device located at their facility, with the ability to test a large volume of samples from different lots or batches, of raw fiber, yarn or fabric, before they are converted into finished goods. As part of the program, APDN will receive retain samples from Licensees to enable full forensic evaluation and authentication whenever required.

Dr. Mike Hogan, VP of Life Sciences, stated, “We are very excited to offer this turn-key solution that allows for both fiberTyping^® and SigNature^® T authentication of greige goods on site. Higher volume of testing translates to a higher degree of confidence in the authenticity of the source material.”

This program will enable the on-site testing of unprocessed fiber, yarn or fabric (greige goods) by anyone in the cotton textile supply chain, including growers, ginners, spinners, manufacturers, logistics partners, brand owners, retailers and government agencies. Forensic authentication of the relevant DNA on site will help ensure that companies are compliant with international or in-country label laws.

The On-Site DNA Authentication platform complements the company’s multi-modal screening platform that was announced last week. The former provides DNA-based proof of origin or authenticity, while the latter enables rapid screening with higher level of assurances than any visual inspection. The On-Site DNA Authentication Platform will be integrated with the company’s service platform for full forensic assessment of its DNA markers, including Certificates of DNA Authentication (CODAs) and expert witnessing for court cases.

Dr. James Hayward, President and CEO of APDN, commented: “This is a development of historic importance, as we believe we are the first and only company to place forensic authentication in the hands of our customers and partners. If I were a brand owner, I would want to ensure that my products are never compromised. The transparency this program offers will allow brand owners, in collaboration with the textile manufacturers and suppliers, to deliver on their promise to the consumer with confidence.”

The company expects to roll out on-site DNA authentication systematically to other industry verticals, including Cash and Valuables in Transit (CViT), pharmaceutics, print media, industrial materials and others.

About Applied DNA Sciences
We make life real and safe by providing botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions and services that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature^® DNA describes the platform ingredient that is at the heart of all of our security and authentication solutions. SigNature DNA is at the core of a family of uncopyable products such as DNAnet^®, our anti-theft product, SigNature^® T, targeted toward textiles, and digitalDNA^®, providing powerful track and trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.

Applied DNA Sciences’ common stock is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol APDN, and its warrants are listed under the symbol APDNW.

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The statements made by APDN in this press release may be “forward-looking” in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe APDN’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN’s SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 15, 2014, which are available at www.sec.gov. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, unless otherwise required by law.

Reader Platform Offers On-the-Spot Mark Detection and Validation as Standalone or Part of APDN’s digitalDNA® System. Making History in Authentication.

STONY BROOK, NY, February 3, 2015 – Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN), (Twitter:@APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, has completed customer feedback demonstrations of its new technology for multi-modal, in-field detection and validation of complementary security elements integrated with its primary SigNature® DNA mark. Platform development now moves from prototype toward customer pilots.

The technology platform is designed to identify APDN DNA-marked products before they are sampled or sent for forensic authentication in one of APDN’s laboratories. With a road map to include a mix of chemical, optical, digital and image-processing characteristics, it enables users to identify the presence of a SigNature DNA mark on their product. Some marks can be both encrypted and covert, and require a multi-modal reader just to indicate their presence.

Used either stand-alone or as an element of APDN’s digitalDNA® architecture, the multi-modal reader platform has been demonstrated at conferences and customer meetings in combination with commercially available mobile host systems such as laptops and tablets, and data-capture devices such as handheld readers of overt or covert bar codes. The digitalDNA system backbone utilizes proprietary security algorithms operating under a standards-based systems architecture for maximal customer utility.

Targeted applications for the multi-modal reader include print, labeling and packaging; police evidence rooms; parts quality control test labs; the identification of DNA-marked home assets; cash and valuables in transit (CViT); government commodities and identification verification. Customers will realize faster speeds and higher confidence in screening and database-storage of results.

Judy Murrah, APDN’s Chief Information Officer, stated: “Applied DNA Sciences’ innovation joins science and information technology to harbor new dimensions of automatic identification for our customers. Our new reader platform — developed with our partners, Intelligent Product Solutions —enables APDN-brand marks to increase in complexity and security while being field-screened with simplicity. Follow-on DNA authentication remains our forensic foundation.”

“In-field mark detection, validation and authentication are critical to our customers for on-the-spot decision-making about security in their environments. The multi-modal reader is a unique complement to Applied DNA Sciences’ world-class forensic science and drives new insights from our digital platform,” said Dr. James Hayward, Chairman and CEO, Applied DNA Sciences.

About Applied DNA Sciences
We make life real and safe by providing botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions and services that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature® DNA describes the uncopyable marker that is at the heart of all of our security and authentication solutions. SigNature DNA is at the core of a family of products such as DNAnet®, our anti-theft product, SigNature® T, targeted toward textiles, and digitalDNA®, providing powerful track and trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.

Applied DNA Sciences is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol APDN, and its warrants are listed under the symbol APDNW.

Forward-Looking Statement
The statements made by APDN in this press release may be “forward-looking” in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe APDN’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN’s SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 15, 2014, which are available at www.sec.gov. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, unless otherwise required by law.

Protecting pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, personal care products, supplements, food and beverage

STONY BROOK, NY, February 2, 2015. Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN), (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology, supply chain and product authentication solutions, announced today that it is working with ITW Pillar Technologies, a business unit of giant ITW (NYSE:ITW), to provide traceable, tamper-proof induction sealing solutions that can be used to protect products from adulteration, counterfeiting and diversion.

ITW Pillar Technologies is a provider of induction cap sealing systems and plasma surface modification systems that can easily incorporate a unique SigNature^® DNA taggant, supplied by Applied DNA Sciences, to mark products, and allow for forensic authentication on the seal itself. This value-added solution has the benefit of protecting the tamper-proof seals on original packaging, and subsequently protect original product with the forensic proof needed to demonstrate that the quality and integrity of product are not compromised.

Stated Rory Wolf, CEO, ITW Pillar Technologies, “Conventional induction seals are vulnerable to counterfeiting. We highly recommend a pro-active approach by integrating with this seal a unique DNA mark that can be designated for a particular product type, made at a particular geographic location, for a specific customer. That is the genius of this solution.”

Applied DNA Sciences and ITW Pillar Technologies are already working on a number of commercial programs in the pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and food and beverage industries.

“We see real benefits to clients that market and sell products where product stewardship, as well as quality assurance, are highly valued. Traceable and tamper-proof induction sealing solutions help to protect products, such as pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, that may be subjected to regular audits, inspections or product authentication,” stated MeiLin Wan, Executive Director, Project Development, Applied DNA Sciences.

About Pillar Technologies
Founded in 1966, Pillar Technologies leads the industry in new product development for the packaging, converting and plastic film-printing marketplace. As a division of ITW (NYSE: ITW), Pillar Technologies has access to literally hundreds of products manufactured by over 600 business units within the ITW family. ITW is a multibillion dollar company with more than 90 years of history. Today, ITW designs and manufacturers fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems and a variety of specialty products and equipment for customers around the world. The company’s vast array of business units are small, decentralized and focused on their customers. By actively practicing teamwork with customers and suppliers, the men and women of ITW are creating competitively superior products, solutions and even work environments.

About Applied DNA Sciences
We make life real and safe by providing botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions and services that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature^® DNA describes the platform ingredient that is at the heart of all of our security and authentication solutions. SigNature DNA is at the core of a family of uncopyable products such as DNAnet^®, our anti-theft product, SigNature^® T, targeted toward textiles, and digitalDNA^®, providing powerful track and trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.

Applied DNA Sciences is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol APDN, and its warrants are listed under the symbol APDNW.

Forward-Looking Statement
The statements made by APDN in this press release may be “forward-looking” in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe APDN’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN’s SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 15, 2014, which are available at www.sec.gov. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, unless otherwise required by law.

pimaTyping® Genetic Assay Will Identify Extra Long Staple Pima Cultivars, Distinguishing Country of Origin. Historic Milestone for Textile Industry

STONY BROOK, NY, January 30, 2015. Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN), (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office issued the “Methods for Genotyping Mature Cotton Fibers and Textiles” patent #8,940,485 on January 27, 2015 for the company’s pimaTyping^® authentication of extra long staple or pima cotton-based products.

This patent encompasses the identification of genetic differences among various Extra Long Staple (“ELS”) cotton cultivars. Unlike APDN’s fiberTyping^® patent (US Pat. # 8,669,079) that identifies the genetic differences between two cotton species, G. barbadense and G. hirsutum, this new patent enables identification of minor genetic differences among various cultivars under the G. bardadense species. This patent makes it possible to distinguish US Pima cotton from other ELS cottons grown around the world, such as Egyptian Giza cotton or Chinese Xinjiang ELS cotton.

Dr. Benjamin Liang, Chief Scientific Officer, and inventor of the patent commented: “This patent is an important milestone for our company as well as the textile industry, because we have proven that we can extract DNA from samples of mature cotton fiber taken from a textile item, and verify its origin. We are in the process of developing commercial testing kits, and in the future, will be able to provide authentication services on site. Given, the high resolution of this test, we offer customized assay development programs for pimaTyping, that is a complement but not a substitute for fiberTyping, which is already globally used to authenticate ELS products.”

The portfolio of cotton authentication technologies will be important to growers, ginners, manufacturers, brands, retailers and governments. Using this new assay, suppliers can assure their “American Pima” labels, even when their products are manufactured off shore.

“This is valuable information for growers as well as manufacturers and consumers to know that a product labeled as ELS, can now be verified to its original source. As a cotton grower, we pride ourselves on the quality, integrity of the Pima ELS fiber that is grown here in the San Joaquin Valley. More importantly, the future of cotton production is protected because products labeled as Pima ELS can be verified through DNA technology — now that’s exciting,” commented Cannon Michael, President, Bowles Farming Company.

Dr. James Hayward, President and CEO of APDN commented:  “This is an extraordinarily valuable extension of our Intellectual Property portfolio. fiberTyping is in wide use to detect noncompliance with specifications when upland cotton is substituted for ELS. Now pimaTyping will allow us to identify source when non-American ELS is substituted for the American cultivar. Our portfolio allows us to diagnose supply chain problems in cotton with genotyping, we can then future-proof the supply chain with SigNature T marking as we have already demonstrated.”

With SigNature T marking and authentication, suppliers of cotton to the US military can prove their cotton is of American origin, in compliance with the Berry Amendment, which applies generally to textiles and apparel which gives preference to government suppliers who use American-grown cotton.

About Applied DNA Sciences
We make life real and safe by providing botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions and services that can help protect products, brands, entire supply chains, and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature^® DNA describes the platform ingredient that is at the heart of all of our security and authentication solutions. SigNature DNA is at the core of a family of uncopyable products such as DNAnet^®, our anti-theft product, SigNature^® T, targeted toward textiles, and digitalDNA^®, providing powerful track and trace. All provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.

Applied DNA Sciences is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol APDN, and its warrants are listed under the symbol APDNW.

Forward-Looking Statement
The statements made by APDN in this press release may be “forward-looking” in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe APDN’s future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN’s SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on December 15, 2014, which are available at www.sec.gov. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, unless otherwise required by law.