Tuesday December 02, 1999

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE

Transgenomic Opens Another New Office In Support of Rapidly Growing Technology

Transgenomic, Inc. has opened an office in Tokyo, Japan. This new location will serve as a sales and technical support office for the Company.

"I am pleased to announce the opening of this new office, and more so, to be able to announce that we have staffed the office with the highest quality personnel", said Collin D’Silva, CEO. Mr. Yasu Nakamura has opened the office and will serve as Branch Manager. "The new office is set up with a Wave® Nucleic Acid Separation System, so that demonstrations of the technology can be facilitated to existing customers, as well as the large potential customer base in Japan," said D’Silva. "This facility fits nicely with our mission of being a global leader in the rapidly growing Life Science arena," D’Silva went on to say.

Transgenomic, Inc. markets the Wave® System, which incorporates patented technology for the automated separation and analysis of DNA. The Company believes the technology offers significant advances in speed and information gathering ability over existing technologies.

Certain statements made by Transgenomic, Inc. in this press release may be forward looking. These may be identified by the use of forward-looking words or phrases such as in the following examples: "anticipate," "believe," "estimated," "think," "planned," "potential," "should," others. Any forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to any forward looking statement, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Statements in this release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.

For more information contact investorrelations@transgenomic.com.