STONY BROOK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 04/10/15

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: APDN) (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology supply chain and product authentication solutions, participated in a media event today, Friday, April 10, 2015, in Huntington Station, New York. The company announced plans to utilize APDN's DNAnet kits for home asset marking and protection. In attendance were Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, Suffolk County Legislator William R. Spencer, M.D., Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory and Chief James Burke of the Suffolk County Police Department. Also in attendance were Deputy Inspector William Read of Suffolk County 2nd Precinct, Chief Ric Bruckenthal, Village of Northport Police and Keith Barrett, President of the Huntington Station Business Improvement District.

DNAnet comes as a turnkey kit, ready to use and complete with home and vehicle alert signs. Communities can use signage to assert that DNAnet is being employed in their community to prevent crimes. Each kit has a unique DNA mark with the capacity to mark up to 100 items. Application is easy, involving a quick swab of DNAnet onto an item, followed by registration of the item on a secure site. Kits will be available for sale on our website www.adnas.com.

"For the first time ever, a U.S. law enforcement agency is empowered by DNAnet, a forensic tool that can identify the rightful owners of lost or stolen property," stated Dr. James A Hayward, President and CEO of Applied DNA Sciences.

For James Hayward's speaking notes, please click here.

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.

Forward Looking Statements
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, as amended on March 6, 2015, and our subsequent quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed on February 9, 2015 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.

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