Prospectus lodged with ASIC

Stem Cell Sciences plc 14 March 2007 14 March 2007 Stem Cell Sciences plc ("Stem Cell Sciences", "SCS" or "the Company") Proposed listing on Australian Stock Exchange Stem Cell Sciences plc, the global biotechnology company focused on the commercialisation of stem cells and stem cell technologies in research and cell-based therapies, announces that it has lodged a Prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for the issue of 9.3 million CDI's(1) to raise a minimum of A$10 million with over subscriptions up to 11.2 million CDI's to raise up to A$12 million at an issue price of A$1.07(2) and dual listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. It is anticipated that the offer will open in Australia on Monday 19 March and the Group's shares will list on the Australian Stock Exchange in April 2007. SCS' shares will continue to be traded on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. (1) The New Securities that the Company is offering under this Prospectus are CHESS Depository Interests (CDIs). The main difference between holding CDIs and Shares is that the holder of CDIs has beneficial ownership of the underlying Shares instead of legal title. CHESS Depository Nominees Pty Ltd ('CDN'), a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX, holds the legal title to the underlying Shares. Holders of CDIs will have the same economic benefits of holding the underlying Shares. In particular, holders of CDIs will be able to transfer and settle transactions electronically on ASX. Shares and CDIs are interchangeable in that Shares traded on the AIM market may be transferred to the ASX where they are traded as CDIs and vice versa. (2) The issue price was calculated on the day of lodgment as a 15% discount to the 30 day Volume Weighted Average share price as traded on the London AIM exchange prior to lodgment. Approximate exchange rates are A$1.07=£0.44 - Ends - For further information, please contact: Stem Cell Sciences plc 0131 662 9829 Peter Mountford, President and CEO Sue Furber, Director of Finance Weber Shandwick Financial 020 7067 0700 Louise Robson or James White Notes to Editors Stem Cell Sciences plc (AIM: STEM) is a global biotechnology company, established in Melbourne, Australia in 1994, providing products in the burgeoning stem cell research and drug discovery markets, in addition to the targeted development of cell-based therapies for neurodegenerative disease and injury. The Company has established a leading intellectual property (IP) and technology portfolio that enables the commercial application of stem cells in drug discovery, providing the Company with early-stage revenue streams and technology development for at scale cell production of SCS cell-based therapeutics. SCS principal focus is in neurological disease. Revenues in the neurotech market, including pharmaceuticals, devices and diagnostics, grew 10% in 2005 to US$110 billion (Neurotech Insights, Volume 2/3 April 30 2006). SCS operates as a group of independent operations with offices and laboratories in Edinburgh and Cambridge, UK, Kobe, Japan, Melbourne, Australia and San Francisco, USA (office only). Each SCS facility is affiliated with an academic centre of excellence. These include the Institute of Stem Cell Research (ISCR), Edinburgh, UK, RIKEN Centre for Development Biology, Kobe, Japan and the Australian Stem Cell Centre, Melbourne, Australia. SCS has four business units, each dedicated to different aspects of the stem cell business opportunity. SC Proven(R) provides cell culture media (liquid formulations) and reagents that enable the growth and differentiation of stem cells. The first SC Proven(R) product, "ESGRO CompleteTM", a cell culture medium capable of consistent growth of mouse embryonic stem cells without serum or feeder cell support was launched in February 2006. This was followed by "HEScGROTM", the first animal-component free cell culture medium to enable improved growth of human embryonic stem cells, in January 2007. These products are manufactured and distributed by Chemicon International, now part of Millipore Corporation. SC Licensing licenses SCS proprietary technologies, such as Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES), Stem Cell Selection, hMADS (human adipose derived stem cells) and Neural Stem Cell Technology for application in laboratory-based research and discovery. SCS has licensed technology to major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies including Merck & Co, Pfizer, Sanofi Aventis, GSK, Deltagen Inc and Lexicon Genetics Inc and others. SC Services provides specialised stem cell production for basic research and drug discovery, including high-throughput applications through an automated cell production facility in Cambridge UK. The services offered include the creation of specific cell lines for a customer, the modification of existing cell lines so that they can be grown in serum free SC Proven(R) media, and the supply of cells for drug screening in multi-well plate format. SC Therapies' goal is to develop safe and effective cell-based therapies for currently incurable diseases. Initial research is being directed to developing and characterising cell lines of potential therapeutic value in the treatment of spinal injury, Parkinson's disease, eye disease, epilepsy and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Programmes to test SCS' proprietary stem cells in animal models of spinal cord injury have been initiated in a number of disease models and preclinical studies for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy are anticipated in 2007-8. For further information on the company please visit: www.stemcellsciences.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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