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STONY BROOK, NY--(Marketwire - Feb 12, 2013) - Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. ( OTCBB : APDN ), aprovider of DNA-basedsecurity and anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, will host a conference call on Friday, February 15, 2013 to discuss its earnings.

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. management will host a thirty-minute conference call beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern standard time on Friday, February 15, 2013 to discuss the company's performance and outline key ongoing and future business initiatives.A presentation by CEO and President James Hayward will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

All participants must pre-register using the link below. It is suggested that you log into the conference call approximately 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time to ensure that all participants are on-line at the start of the call.While callers cannot be heard during the call, questions may be emailed beforehand to investor@adnas.com.

For those of you unable to participate, a transcript of the call will be posted by end of business on February 15, and available under the "Investors" tab of the company's web site.

To Participate: Reserve your spot now at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/176683054

To Send Questions Prior to the Call: Please email questions prior to the call to investor@adnas.com.

Due to the large number of expected participants, not all questions may be answered on the call.

Company Background Materials: You may be interested in the company's Investor Information section on the company's web site, including publications, recent press releases, blogs, and other materials.

About APDNAPDN is a provider of botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions that can help protect products, brands and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature DNA and BioMaterial Genotyping, our principal anti-counterfeiting and product authentication solutions that essentially cannot be copied, provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.

The statements made by APDN may be forward-looking in nature. 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 20, 2012 and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. 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.

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DNA samples sent to Scotland Yard prove a young New Zealand girl is not the missing Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from a vacation apartment in Portugal in 2007.

Left: Madeleine before her disappearance. Right: A digitally-altered photo showing what Madeleine might look like today. (Metropolitan police)

Published: Feb. 13, 2013 at 9:57 AM

DNA results prove a young New Zealand girl is not Madeleine McCann, the British girl missing since May 2007.

The girl's family voluntarily submitted a DNA sample to police after she was spotted several times in Queenstown, New Zealand, in March and then again New Years Eve by a retailer who became suspicious by the resemblance she bore to McCann.

Police sent the sample to Scotland Yard, which confirmed that the DNA did not match that of the missing girl, New Zealand media reported.

"We have received confirmation from Scotland Yard that a DNA sample provided voluntarily from a girl mistaken as missing British girl Madeleine McCann on New Year's Eve in Queenstown last year does not provide a match for that of the missing girl," said Detective Inspector Steve McGregor of the New Zealand southern police.

"At the time of the sighting police made thorough inquiries and were completely satisfied that the girl was not Madeleine McCann."

The family of the Queenstown girl has requested to remain anonymous.

McCann was just shy of her fourth birthday when she disappeared while on vacation with her parents at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal on May 3, 2007.

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CORSICANA, Texas A 58-year-old Texas man walked free Monday after serving years for a crime he didn't commit -- the repeated stabbing of a woman whose body was found on a dirt road in rural North Texas.

Randolph Arledge was sentenced to 99 years in prison in 1984 for killing Carolyn Armstrong. But a state district judge in Corsicana, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas, agreed with prosecutors and Arledge's attorneys that he could no longer be considered guilty after new DNA tests tied someone else to the crime.

Judge James Lagomarsino agreed to release Arledge on bond while the process of overturning his conviction is pending. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must accept Lagomarsino's recommendation for the conviction to be formally overturned, a process that is considered a formality.

Arledge wore shackles around his wrists and ankles at the start of the hearing, but was later taken into a back room by two deputies to have them removed. When he returned, Arledge hugged his two children. His daughter was 4 years old and his son 7 when he was sent to prison.

"They suffered more than anybody," Arledge told reporters afterward. He gestured to his daughter, Randa Machelle Arledge. "She's always talking about, she wanted me to come pick her up from school. Now she's picking me up."

His children said they remained hopeful through the years, not doubting his innocence.

"Every time he came up for parole, it was broken, shattered hopes," his daughter said.

Armstrong's body was found in August 1981 on a rural dirt road in Navarro County, according to a court filing by Arledge's attorneys. She had been stripped naked from the waist down and stabbed more than 40 times.

Her abandoned car was found miles away with several pieces of evidence, including a black hairnet on the left side of the driver's seat. Hair taken from that net was preserved for three decades. In 2011, more advanced DNA testing linked samples from the hair net and elsewhere to someone else.

Navarro County District Attorney Lowell Thompson said authorities are searching for the person matched to the DNA and believe they know where he is. The case "will stay open until we solve it," he said in an interview.

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CORSICANA, Texas A 58-year-old Texas man was allowed to walk free Monday after spending half his life behind bars for a crime he didn't commit -- the repeated stabbing of a woman whose body was found on a dirt road in rural North Texas.

Randolph Arledge, left, speaks to one of his attorneys, Innocence Project co-director Barry Scheck, before a court hearing in Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 11, 2013.

Randolph Arledge was sentenced to 99 years in prison in 1984 for killing Carolyn Armstrong. But a state district judge in Corsicana, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas, agreed with prosecutors and Arledge's attorneys that he could no longer be considered guilty after new DNA tests tied someone else to the crime.

Judge James Lagomarsino agreed to release Arledge while the process of overturning his conviction is pending. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must accept Lagomarsino's recommendation for the conviction to be formally overturned, a process that is considered a formality.

Arledge was wearing shackles around his wrists and ankles at the start of the hearing. He later was taken into a back room by two deputies to have the shackles removed. When he returned, Arledge hugged his two children. His daughter was 4 years old and his son 7 when he was sent to prison.

Armstrong's body was found in August 1981 on a rural dirt road in Navarro County, according to a court filing by Arledge's attorneys. She had been stripped naked from the waist down and stabbed more than 40 times.

Her abandoned car was found miles away with several pieces of evidence, including a black hairnet on the left side of the driver's seat. Hair taken from that net was preserved for three decades. In 2011, more advanced DNA testing linked a hair sample to someone else.

Armstrong's relatives declined to comment Monday.

Like many wrongfully convicted inmates, Arledge was sent to prison with the help of faulty eyewitness testimony. Two co-conspirators in an armed robbery testified at his trial that he had admitted to stabbing someone in Corsicana and that he had blood on his clothes and knife, according to the filing by Arledge's attorneys.

One of those witnesses has since admitted to lying about Arledge due to a personal dispute, the filing said.

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Researchers have created a way to store data in the form of DNA and retrieve it without errors.

The researchers, from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, England, claim to have used such a method to store versions of an MP3 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, along with a JPG photo and several text files.

Their research was published in the journal Nature in late January.

"We already know that DNA is a robust way to store information because we can extract it from woolly mammoth bones, which date back tens of thousands of years, and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman, co-author of the EMBL-EBI study. "It's also incredibly small, dense and does not need any power for storage, so shipping and keeping it is easy."

Last fall, Harvard University researchers were able to store 70 billion copies of an HTML-formatted book in DNA binary code.

The difference between the two studies is that EMBL-EBI invented an error-correcting code that was "specially tailored to deal with the types of errors" that both reading and writing DNA tend to make, Goldman said.

Goldman and his co-author, Ewan Birney, associate director of EMBL-EBI, set out to create a code that overcomes both problems. The new method requires synthesizing DNA from the encoded information. The lab worked with Santa Clara, Calif.-based Agilent Technologies, a maker of measurement instruments such as oscilloscopes, to transmit the data and encode it in DNA.

Agilent synthesized hundreds of thousands of pieces of DNA to represent the data, then mailed the sample to EMBL-EBI. There, researchers were able to decode the file.

Goldman's team analyzed the cost-effectiveness of the technology and suggested that, for now, using DNA as a storage medium would be best suited for archival purposes, such as preserving personal photos or videos.

This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld's print edition. It was adapted from an article that appeared earlier on Computerworld.com.

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