Boston, MA - January 7, 2003 - United States Biological, a leading supplier of biochemicals, biologicals, enzymes and antibodies, and Redasoft, a global provider of drug discovery productivity enhancement software for the life science research community today announced an agreement for the distribution of Redasoft's desktop software product, Visual Cloning.

            "The United States biotechnology industry is poised to continue to grow rapidly over the next decade," said Warren Shore, United States Biological's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Genomics and Proteomics will continue to place the US Biotechnology Industry in one of the highest sustained growth industries. The rapid growth of online-based software supporting scientific discovery is becoming a top priority for our company and we are pleased to be able to offer such a well-known product to our customers, who represent virtually every research lab in the US."

            "Life scientists today need both wet lab supplies and corresponding software to be successful in their research," said Danny Reda, Redasoft's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are therefore extremely pleased to announce this distribution partnership with United States Biological whose track record of success and reputation for quality are well established."

            Redasoft Visual Cloning is an industry leading software suite that enables increased efficiency and productivity in drug discovery research. Key features of the software include exceptional graphics, extensive web integration, advanced restriction analysis, open reading frames search, primer design, a sequence viewer, subsequence search, and an intuitive user interface.

            Based in the Boston area, United States Biological is a world-wide supplier of over 30,000 biochemicals, biologicals, enzymes and antibodies used in research and development. US Biological is well known for supplying molecular biology grade products such as antibiotics, antibodies, biochemicals, carbohydrates, cell culture media, enzymes, peptides, human & animal sera and BioGene kits for Apoptosis, ELISA and Molecular Biology assays. Additional information about United States Biological can be found at http://www.usbio.net/.

            Kristina Lundstrom, United States Biological, kris@usbio.net

            Evan Carmichael, Redasoft, ecarmichael@redasoft.com