SpectraScience to Exhibit at Digestive Disease Week in New Orleans

SAN DIEGO, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SpectraScience, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SCIE), a San Diego based medical device company, announced today that its senior management team will exhibit at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in New Orleans, May 2-5.

DDW is the world's leading conference for gastrointestinal clinicians and scientists.  Approximately 16,000 GI professionals attend each year. 270 leading manufacturers from around the world will display their products and/or services. SpectraScience's team will be available at the Morial Conference center, Booth 223. To schedule a meeting with SpectraScience or for more information, call Jim Hitchin at (858) 847-0200.

SpectraScience holds approximately 60 patents worldwide that have been issued or are pending on its WavSTAT® Optical Biopsy System and LUMA® Cervical Imaging Systems. These devices are used to assess tissue quickly to help determine if it is normal, pre-cancerous, or cancerous. The WavSTAT and LUMA Systems are approved by the FDA for detecting pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue in the colon and cervix, respectively. An evaluation of the WavSTAT for detection of pre-cancers in the throat ("Barrett's esophagus") is being tested.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause SpectraScience's actual results to differ materially from results discussed in forward-looking statements. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by SpectraScience in this news release, its most recent Form 10-K and in SpectraScience's other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect SpectraScience's business. These forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the cautions and risk factors filed by SpectraScience in its annual report on Form 10-K and other documents.

About SpectraScience, Inc.

SpectraScience is a San Diego based medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets spectrophotometry systems capable of determining whether tissue is normal, pre-cancerous or cancerous without physically removing tissue from the body. The WavSTAT Optical Biopsy System uses light to optically scan tissue and provide the physician with an immediate analysis. With FDA approval for sale in the U.S. and the CE Mark for the European Union, the WavSTAT System is the first commercially available product that incorporates this innovative technology for clinical use. The Company's LUMA imaging technology has received FDA approval for an optical non-invasive system that is proven to more effectively detect cervical cancer precursors than conventional methods available in the market today.

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