Shaping Discovery, Improving Life

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Company Background

Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) is a global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition.

Our systems, consumables and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration, driving to discoveries and developments that make life even better. Life Technologies customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics.

Life Technologies had sales of more than $3 billion in 2008, employs more than 9,500 people, has a presence in more than 100 countries, and possesses a rapidly growing intellectual property estate of approximately 3,600 patents and exclusive licenses.

Life Technologies was created by the combination of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc in November of 2008.

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News

  • SOLiD 4 Announced

    Company announces SOLiD(TM) 4 System, delivering industry's most cost effective, highest quality genome for $6,000, reduced to $3,000 by end of 2010 with SOLiD(TM) 4hq upgrade.

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  • LT & Ignite Institute

    Life Technologies and the Ignite Institute for Individualized Health for a collaboration to create a ground-breaking genomic sequencing center at Ignite's new facility in Northern Virginia. Ignite will acquire 100 of the Applied Biosystems SOLiD(TM) 4 Systems, the most advanced next generation DNA sequencing platform on the market, establishing the largest concentration of genetic analytical power in North America.

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  • Q4 & FY09 Results

    Life Technologies today announced results for its fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2009. Non-GAAP revenue for the fourth quarter was $874 million, resulting in full year non-GAAP revenues of $3.30 billion, an increase of 5 percent over the $3.14 billion reported for 2008, as if Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems had been combined.

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