TED Ted Baker Plc

    23rd March 2005

             Tepnel Life Sciences PLC (`Tepnel' or `the Company')              

                 COMPANY ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC FOCUS ON REAGENT                  
                             PRODUCTS AND SERVICES                             
                    Withdrawal from lab equipment business                     

Manchester, U.K. The Company (AIM: TED) has announced that following a
strategic decision by the board to focus on research products & services and
molecular diagnostics, it has withdrawn from the specialist DNA-purification
instrument business.

Tepnel has since 31st December 2004 ceased the research, development, sales and
marketing activities associated with Nucleopure and Nucleoplex instrument
systems. The company has provided at year-end a total of �547,000, comprising �
506,000 for write down of stocks and �41,000 in redundancy costs for people
employed directly or indirectly on these projects. Annualised payroll savings
associated with the cessation of this activity are estimated at �250,000.

The benefits of this decision are expected to contribute positively to
financial results for the year ended 31st December 2005.

For Further Information:

Tepnel Life Sciences plc
Ben Matzilevich, CEO

Gron Ffoulkes-Davies, Finance Director

0161 946 2200

Seymour Pierce

Mark Percy, Corporate Finance

0207 107 8000

De Facto Communications

Richard Anderson

020 7940 1000

Notes to Editors

About Tepnel Life Sciences plc

Tepnel is a UK-based international life sciences company focused on molecular
diagnostics and research products and services including DNA purification kits
and reagents, scientific services for nucleic acid purification, drug analysis,
genotyping and genetically modified foods. Tepnel was founded in 1992 to
exploit DNA technology generated at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology) and is quoted on the AIM segment of the London Stock
Exchange (AIM: TED). More information on Tepnel can be found at www.tepnel.com.



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